Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas Releases Three New Xilinx Development Kits

Business Wire, Sept 27, 2006

PHOENIX -- Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, the largest operating group of Avnet Inc. (NYSE:AVT), today announced the release of three new Xilinx FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) Development Kits: two Virtex-4 PCI Express Kits and a Virtex-5 LX Kit. All three kits provide complete development platforms for designing and verifying applications and are available now for purchase.

The Xilinx Virtex-4 FX PCI Express Development Kit is offered with the FX60 or FX100 device. The system board provides several high-speed serial interfaces to the on-chip RocketIO[TM] multi-gigabit transceivers, including an 8-lane PCI Express interface. The board also supports the on-chip PowerPC[TM] processor with DDR and flash memories, a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port, and CPU debug and trace ports. The Virtex-5 LX Development Kit is based on the LX50 device, and enables designers to prototype high-performance designs for the newest family of Xilinx FPGAs.

The three system boards include a full EXP expansion slot for flexibility and versatility. The EXP specification was developed by Avnet engineers for the unique I/O requirements of FPGA development boards. EXP modules can be added to the board, giving designers the ability to customize their hardware development environment with application specific daughter cards. The EXP connectors provide easy access to 168 high-performance FPGA I/O signals.

"With the introduction of the Virtex-4 FX PCI Express Development Kit and the Virtex-5 LX Evaluation Kit, Avnet continues to provide useful development tools for our Xilinx customers," said Tim Barber, vice president of Xilinx Global Marketing. "The advanced feature set of these boards, combined with the downloadable reference designs from Avnet's Design Resource Center and local field application engineering support, helps our customers bring their products to market sooner."

For more information about the Xilinx Virtex product families, please visit: www.em.avnet.com/xilinx.> About Avnet Electronics Marketing

Avnet Electronics Marketing is the largest operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a Fortune 500 company. Avnet Electronics Marketing serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in 68 countries, distributing electronic components from leading manufacturers and providing associated design-chain and supply-chain services. The group's Web site is located at http://www.em.avnet.com.

About Avnet, Inc.

Avnet (NYSE:AVT) markets, distributes and adds value to the products of the world's leading electronic component suppliers, computer manufacturers and embedded subsystem providers. To accelerate growth for trading partners, Avnet offers an array of services such as demand creation, supply-chain optimization, design engineering and technical assistance, device programming, logistics, product assembly and integration. For the fiscal year ended July 1, 2006, Avnet generated revenue of $14.25 billion. Visit www.avnet.com/.>

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