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September 21, 2011 - Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas and TI to Deliver Technical SpeedWays on the New BeagleBoard-xM

PHOENIX -- Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), has teamed up with Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) to hold a series of SpeedWay® technical seminars on the new open source community BeagleBoard-xM, featuring TI's ARM® microprocessor-based EZ Software Development Kit (EZ SDK). Attendees will also receive technical training on the embedded Linux system and best-practices for integrating Linux with the TI EZ SDK. Registration is open now at www.em.avnet.com/beagleboardxm and the cost to attend is $199.

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Making stops at ten locations throughout the Americas, this day-long technical seminar series will feature presentations and hands-on labs demonstrating TI's DaVinci digital media processors, C6000™ digital signal processors (DSP), DSP + ARM processors and ARM microprocessors. Technical experts from both Avnet and TI will teach design engineers how to take full-advantage of the latest release of the popular BeagleBoard development platform.

"TI is continually seeking ways to make embedded development easier" said Jake Alamat, director, marketing, ARM microprocessors, TI. "By teaming up with Avnet, embedded developers can learn Linux programming by utilizing the popular open source community platform, BeagleBoard-xM, along with TI's EZ SDK. It's a great way to springboard development into other areas of embedded hardware design"

"Beagleboard-xM and TI's EZ SDK are great tools to jumpstart Linux development on TI's popular ARM microprocessors," said John Weber, applications engineering manager at Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. "Avnet's technical team created this training with a strong focus on the popular, affordable BeagleBoard-xM. This course eliminates the learning curve by detailing the installation process all the way to application development with TI's EZ SDK."

Cost to Attend
The attendance fee for this SpeedWay is $199. As part of the attendance fee, attendees will receive the BeagleBoard-xM, along with an accessory kit, which includes a 5V, 6A power supply, 4GB SD card, SD card reader and USB to serial adapter.

About the BeagleBoard-xM open source community board
The BeagleBoard-xM delivers 1GHz ARM® Cortex™-A8 performance and and extra memory with 512MB of low-power DDR RAM, enabling hobbyists, innovators and engineers to go beyond their current imagination. Designed with the community inputs in mind, this open hardware design improves upon the laptop-like performance and expandability, while keeping at hand-held power levels. Direct connectivity is supported by the on-board four-port hub with 10/100 Ethernet, while maintaining a tiny 3.25-inch-square footprint.

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About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments semiconductor innovations help 80,000 customers unlock the possibilities of the world as it could be — smarter, safer, greener, healthier and more fun. Our commitment to building a better future is ingrained in everything we do — from the responsible manufacturing of our semiconductors, to caring for our employees, to giving back inside our communities. This is just the beginning of our story. Learn more at www.ti.com.

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 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 in more than 70 countries worldwide. Avnet accelerates its partners' success by connecting the world's leading technology suppliers with a broad base of more than 100,000 customers by providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended July 2, 2011, Avnet generated revenue of $26.5 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.

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