Avnet Offers New On-Ramp Technical Session for Texas Instruments’ DM365 DaVinci™ Video System-On-Chip

The Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) announces the launch of a new On-Ramp Technical Session™ featuring design solutions from Texas Instruments (TI). The new On-Ramp features live presentations and demonstrations of TI’s TMS320DM365 DaVinci™ video system-on-chip (SoC), a single-chip ARM® processor capable of capturing, encoding, decoding and displaying high definition (HD) video. This On-Ramp is available free of charge to customers in North America upon request.

"The Avnet On-Ramp Technical Sessions provide our customers with design techniques for incorporating the DM365’s flexible, built-in video processing hardware without the complexities of multi-format, multi-streaming encode and decode of video,” said Alex Iuorio, senior vice president of supplier business development for Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. "Armed with that information, this experience will ultimately help shorten product development cycles and reduce overall time to market.”

During the new On-Ramp Technical Session, Avnet subject matter experts share best practices, real world design success stories, and provide hands-on demonstrations that show users how to fully take advantage of the DM365 capabilities in capturing, encoding, decoding and displaying HD video. On-Ramp topics include product roadmap, technical overview, system solutions, development tools and reference designs.

"By offering live presentations of TI’s DM365 DaVinci video SoC, Avnet’s On-Ramp Technical Session allows developers to get in-depth technical information to help them create their designs faster,” said Sonia Ghelani, TI’s DM36x product line marketing manager. "Through these technical sessions customers learn techniques that they can leverage to get their products to market quicker.”

For more information, or to request an On-Ramp Technical Session, please visit: www.em.avnet.com/tionramp.

The demo for the On-Ramp uses the DM365 digital video evaluation module (DVEVM) and new 7" WVGA display kit developed by Avnet. The display kit and Avnet Interposer Board (required for use to run the demo on the DVEVM) are available at www.em.avnet.com/dm355-365aib.

An online version of this On-Ramp is available in the Avnet Technology Presentations section of the Avnet Electronics Marketing technical training Web site.

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 Web site is located at www.em.avnet.com. Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology in the world. Avnet accelerates its partners’ success by connecting the world’s leading technology suppliers with a broad base of more than 100,000 customers and providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended June 27, 2009, Avnet generated revenue of $16.23 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.

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