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PHOENIX -- Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today announced that it has added Digilent, Inc., a leading manufacturer of Xilinx development boards, programming cables and embedded programming solutions, to its Americas offering. Digilent's wide range of low-cost development boards augments Avnet's existing Xilinx offering and provides customers with access to programming cables and embedded programming modules to jump-start new designs. Digilent products are available from an Avnet representative, or online from Avnet Express, Avnet's e-Commerce engine.
Digilent's wide range of products includes the HS1, a high-speed, Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) programming cable that enables programming and debugging of Xilinx FPGAs. The Digilent HS1 can drive the JTAG/SPI bus at up to 30Mbi/sec and is fully supported by the Xilinx® ISE Design Suite 13.2 and later software tools. Additionally, Digilent offers the SMT1, a high-speed, surface-mount programming module, that is fully supported by the Xilinx tools and Digilent's own Adept software development kit, allowing for custom JTAG applications to be created.
"Partnering with Avnet will greatly increase our mutual customers' exposure to our Xilinx FPGA development kits and programming solutions," said Clint Cole, president of Digilent, Inc. "We look forward to working together to help solve the complex programming needs of today's engineer."
"The addition of Digilent allows Avnet the opportunity to offer a wide range of low-cost development boards to our customers," said Alex Iuorio, senior vice president of supplier marketing, Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. "Being able to offer these useful and cost-effective tools to our programmable logic and embedded customers will move more innovative technology to market faster."
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About Digilent
Digilent Inc. is a leader in the design, manufacture, and worldwide distribution of FPGA and microcontroller technologies. Since its founding in 2000, Digilent has grown to the point where our products can now be found in over 1000 universities in more than 70 countries throughout the world. As a multinational company with offices in the U.S., Taiwan, China and Romania, Digilent is able to provide low-cost, expert quality solutions for a variety of customer needs. Digilent also provides high-end OEM manufacturing services for leading technology companies including Xilinx, Cypress Semiconductor and National Instruments, to name a few. For additional information, visit: www.digilentinc.com.
About Avnet Electronics Marketing
Avnet Electronics Marketing is an operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet, Inc. that serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in more than 70 countries, distributing electronic components from leading manufacturers and providing associated design-chain and supply-chain services. The group's website is located at www.em.avnet.com.
About Avnet, Inc.
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology serving customers in more than 70 countries worldwide. Avnet accelerates its partners' success by connecting the world's leading technology suppliers with a broad base of more than 100,000 customers by providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended July 2, 2011, Avnet generated revenue of $26.5 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.
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