The Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) have upgraded the Spartan®-3A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Evaluation Kit.

The Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), and Nuventix, Inc., innovators of SynJet technology cooling solutions, announce an Americas distribution agreement.

Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), has launched eight new On-Ramp Technical Sessions™ featuring programmable solutions from Xilinx®.

Avnet Memec, a specialty semiconductor division of Avnet Electronics Marketing – an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) – has launched the Actel Ultra-Low Power SpeedWay Design Workshop™.

The Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas business of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), and National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM) have launched the EXP high-performance SerDes module for use with low-cost Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) applications.

The Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), and Kontron America, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance and long-life embedded computing technology solutions, today announced a distribution agreement.

The Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), announces the release of a new Xilinx® MicroBlaze® Processor Linux DVD, MicroBlaze Processor Linux Starter Kit and the launch of the Linux for MicroBlaze Processor SpeedWay Design Workshop™.

The Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) announces the release of the Xilinx® Virtex®-5 FXT FPGA Evaluation Kit.

Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, the electronics distribution components group for the Americas region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announces the release of a $39 Xilinx® Spartan®-3A Evaluation Kit.

The Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), is launching the Art of Motor Control SpeedWay Design Workshop™ featuring Renesas Technology America, Inc.

The Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), is launching the Art of Motor Control SpeedWay Design Workshop™ featuring Renesas Technology America, Inc.

Avnet and Xilinx announced today that they will be embarking on a worldwide series of training seminars and events called X-Fest. The seminars will focus on helping design engineers with new and existing design challenges for embedded processing, DSP, power supplies, memory interfaces and analog front ends. The 90-city global tour will begin in Beijing on April 3rd.