Industry leaders join forces to deliver worldwide training

Avnet Electronics Marketing and Xilinx Inc. announced X-Fest—a series of technical seminars offering practical, how-to training for FPGA, DSP and embedded systems designers.

Analog Devices (ADI), National Semiconductor and Texas Instruments (TI) are among the list of gold sponsors participating in the worldwide technical seminar series. The series kicks off its 90-city global tour in Beijing on April 3, 2007, and continues through July 13 in locations throughout Europe, Asia, Japan and North America.

According to the press release, the one-day seminars will offer several 90-minute training courses for attendees to choose from and are 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 (varying by region) sponsored by ADI, Intel Flash Memory Group, Lauterbach, LynuxWorks, Murata, National, Synplicity, TI and The MathWorks.

Tim Barber, VP of global Xilinx marketing for Avnet, commented, "In an intense, single-day format, design engineers can connect with multiple suppliers to explore the latest breakthroughs in the FPGA design space."

A schedule of the technical seminars to be held in Asia are available online.