Avnet and Xilinx Kick off North America X-Fest Seminar Series

Business Wire, April 10, 2007

What: X-Fest Seminar Series

Where/When: Phoenix, Arizona April 10, 2007

PHOENIX & SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Avnet Electronics Marketing (NYSE:AVT) and Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) kicked off the Americas leg of its 90-city global seminar series tour today in Salt Lake City. X-Fest, a series of technical seminars offering practical, how-to training around system level design for FPGA, DSP and embedded systems designers, runs worldwide through July 13 in locations throughout Europe, Asia, Japan and North America. For complete program and registration information, visit http://em.avnet.com/xfest07.> To date, nearly 1400 people have registered to attend X-Fest in North America, while more than 500 attended the first two seminars in China. X-Fest one-day seminars will offer several 90-minute training courses for attendees to choose from, designed to provide specialized training on design solutions for FPGA circuitry and the components surrounding FPGAs. Attendees will also have access to partner demonstration exhibits (varies by city) sponsored by Agilent Technologies, Analog Devices, Eridon, Intel Flash Memory Group, Lauterbach, LynuxWorks, Micron, Murata, National Semiconductor, NEC Electronics, Samtec, Sharp Microelectronics, Synplicity, Texas Instruments and The MathWorks, which offer a unique opportunity to explore some of the latest design solutions. Xilinx will showcase multiple demonstrations and development platforms, including solutions and development boards leveraging its low-cost Spartan[TM]-3A FPGA devices, low-power CoolRunner[TM]-II CPLD devices and the latest 65nm Virtex[TM]-5 SXT FPGA devices optimized for high-performance digital signal processing.

"With the kick-off last week in Beijing and Shanghai, and today in North America, X-Fest is on a roll," said Tim Barber, vice president of global Xilinx marketing for Avnet Electronics Marketing. "Early feedback from attendees and partners has been tremendous and thanks to the hard work done by all involved - Avnet, Xilinx and all our valued partners - I predict this global event will be an historic one for the design community."

Attendees will leave X-Fest armed with the tools and practical knowledge necessary to tackle system level design for new and existing design challenges for embedded processing, DSP, power supplies, memory interfaces and analog front ends.

About Avnet Electronics Marketing

Avnet Electronics Marketing is an 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 70 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

Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and technology services and solutions with more than 250 locations serving 70 countries worldwide. The company markets, distributes and optimizes the supply-chain and provides design-chain services for the products of the world's leading electronic component suppliers, enterprise computer manufacturers and embedded subsystem providers. Avnet brings a breadth and depth of capabilities, such as maximizing inventory efficiency, managing logistics, assembling products and providing engineering design assistance for its 100,000 customers, accelerating their growth through cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended July 1, 2006, Avnet generated revenue of $14.25 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.

About Xilinx

Xilinx, Inc. is the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.