Avnet Electronics Marketing:

WHAT:

Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), has made video presentations of recent Design Seminars and SpeedWay Design Workshops™ available online for free on-demand viewing at ZedBoard.org.

Avnet’s Design Seminars are online courses providing application-specific training for designers of embedded applications based on the Xilinx® Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC architecture, which enable extensive system level differentiation, integration, and flexibility through hardware, software and I/O programmability. The programs were created by Avnet technical specialists in conjunction with subject matter experts from Xilinx, Inc., Analog Devices, Inc. and MathWorks. Available Design Seminar videos include the Smarter Vision Seminar, Integrated Software-Defined Radio on Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC, and Motor Control from Concept to Production with Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC.

The on-demand series of SpeedWay Design Workshops™ is designed for designers of electronic applications based on the Xilinx Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC architecture. Taught by Avnet technical experts, these courses combine informative presentations with do-it-yourself labs supported by the ZedBoard™ and MicroZed™ development platforms. Available SpeedWay Design Workshops videos include Designing Accelerators for the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC, PetaLinux for the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC, Developing a Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC Hardware Platform, and Developing Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC Software.

WHERE:

Avnet Design Seminar and SpeedWay Design Workshop videos are accessible through the ZedBoard.org training and video library.

ACTION:

For a short video preview of Avnet's online Xilinx SpeedWay Design Workshops, visit the AvnetDesign channel on YouTube at http://bit.ly/1iPsFhj. More information on ZedBoard and MicroZed is available at ZedBoard.org. Click here for a full listing of live and online technical training events from Avnet Electronics Marketing.

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 80 countries, distributing electronic components and embedded systems from leading manufacturers and providing associated design-chain, supply-chain and value-added integration 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 globally. Avnet accelerates its partners' success by connecting the world's leading technology suppliers with a broad base of customers by providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended June 29, 2013, Avnet generated revenue of $25.5 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.