CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IPextreme® Inc., the company bringing famous IP (intellectual property) to system-on-chip (SoC) designers worldwide, and Lauterbach, the leading manufacturer of hardware assisted microprocessor development tools, today announced complete interoperability between Lauterbach’s Trace32 debug systems and IPextreme’s IEEE 1149.7 cJTAG semiconductor IP core.

“In the IEEE working group, Texas Instruments worked closely with Lauterbach to ensure that the IEEE 1149.7 standard is suitable for all applications,” said Gary Swoboda, CTO of emulation technology at Texas Instruments (TI). “We have worked with IPextreme and Lauterbach for the past year to ensure that designers can take full advantage of the IEEE 1149.7 features and look forward to seeing how the industry takes advantage of the IEEE 1149.7 technology.”

“The availability of software debug and development tools supporting the IEEE 1149.7 standard is essential for system design houses to efficiently manufacture their products and take advantage of the new IEEE 1149.7 features,” said Pierre-Xavier Thomas, VP of Engineering, IPextreme. “We are very pleased with the results of our past year’s collaboration with Lauterbach’s expert engineers who also contributed to the IEEE 1149.7 working group. As a result, customers of the IEEE 1149.7 cJTAG Silicon IP can immediately benefit from cJTAG by utilizing Lauterbach’s TRACE32 debuggers with native 2-pin IEEE 1149.7 cJTAG support.”

“IPextreme played a vital role with Lauterbach’s ability to support the IEEE 1149.7 standard,” said Ingo Rohloff, Senior Engineer at Lauterbach. “As a developer, it is essential to acquire a reference platform as soon as possible. IPextreme’s engineers supplied the IEEE 1149.7 reference platform necessary for Lauterbach to implement support for this standard. This collaboration has allowed Lauterbach and IPextreme to offer a successful implementation of the standard, well before the standard was even ratified. As a result, we have confirmation of IP and tool compatibility, which work together seamlessly.”

About IPextreme Inc.

IPextreme packages, delivers and supports famous IP (intellectual property) designed by large semiconductor companies and used by system-on-chip (SoC) designers worldwide. These production-proven IP products serve both broad horizontal markets and specific verticals such as consumer and automotive, and are provided in a process-independent and EDA-neutral format for easy use by the widest range of customers. With a decade of experience in developing, packaging, licensing and supporting IP, IPextreme offers a complete business solution that allows semiconductor companies to strategically leverage their internal IP portfolio and expand overall revenue. The company has offices in Campbell, California; Munich, Germany; and Tokyo, Japan with representatives in China, India, Israel, Korea and Taiwan. For additional information, please visit www.ip-extreme.com.

About Lauterbach

Lauterbach is the leading manufacturer of complete, modular microprocessor development tools worldwide with 30 years experience in the field of embedded designs. It is an internationally well-established company with blue chip customers from every corner of the globe and close relationship with all semiconductor manufacturers. Besides the Headquarters in Hoehenkirchen, Germany, the company has its own branch offices in United Kingdom, Italy, France, on the East and West coasts of the United States, Japan and China. Highly qualified sales and support engineers are also available in many other countries.

About IEEE 1149.7

The IEEE 1149.7 standard was ratified by the IEEE in December 2009.

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PHOENIX — February 10, 2010 — The Avnet Electronics Marketing operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announces the availability of the Xilinx^® Virtex^®-6 FPGA DSP Development Kit as part of the Xilinx Targeted Design Platform for DSP design. Order entry is now open for the $2,995 kit that includes a device-locked version of ISE^® Design Suite: System Edition 11.4, which can be downloaded today so developers can quickly get started on their designs.

Wireless, aerospace and defense, instrumentation and medical imaging applications and other computationally-intensive applications demand greater digital signal processing performance and functionality to support high performance systems. This thirst for performance is made all the more challenging when combined with the need to react to emerging and or changing standards. FPGAs provide an ideal solution to these problems; single-chip TeraMAC/s performance and re-programmability that enable differentiation in a changing world.

To address this challenge, Avnet has worked with Xilinx to develop and release the first DSP development kit that combines Virtex-6 FPGA devices, a scalable development board, DSP IP, complete documentation and cables, with a Targeted Reference Design, and the DSP development tools required to evaluate, modify and extend the design.  For the first time, DSP designers can compare the merits of RTL against high-level design flows that use languages such as C/C++ and MATLAB® / Simulink®  software to determine the best design flow to bring their products to release. The Virtex-6 FPGA DSP Kit provides up to a 10x productivity advantage and an easier entry point for using FPGAs for DSP. By combining the elements of a total solution, the kit enables users to focus on the unique value of their design from the beginning of their design process. 

“With the introduction of the Virtex-6 FPGA DSP Kit, Avnet is offering its first domain specific targeted design platform,” said Jim Beneke, vice president, global technical marketing at Avnet Electronics Marketing. “This kit will help our customers quickly learn the different tool flows and design techniques involved in creating DSP-centric designs with the Virtex-6 FPGA family.”

A key component of the kit is the preconfigured and fully validated Virtex-6 DSP Targeted Reference Design. This design serves as a basis to illustrate DSP techniques and design flows for- Virtex-6 class of signal processing functions. The state of the art digital up converter (DUC) / digital down converter (DDC) Targeted Reference Design shows customers how to use advanced techniques such as clock over sampling, time division multiplexing and using high performance DSP48 slices for optimizing signal processing performance and resource use. The design flow based on Simulink and MATLAB from The MathWorks^TM allows algorithm developers to create DSP hardware designs using a familiar modeling environment without the need to learn RTL. Experienced RTL designers are provided design techniques for creating efficient DSP hardware using ISE Design Suite and LogicCore^TM DSP IP along with verification methodologies for comparing functional correctness against high-level algorithm models.

Below are the key deliverables of the Virtex-6 DSP Targeted Reference Design:

• Design Source files for RTL and Simulink
• Top level system integration RTL source files
• Simulation environment
• Testbenches 
• Implementation environment
• Complete steps and parameters for design synthesis
• MAP, place and route and timing closure
• Targeted reference design tutorials including recommended flows for design modification and integration

“The Virtex-6 DSP Development kit enables customers to get started immediately with a great out of the box experience and choice of design flows that maximizes customer’s productivity using Virtex-6 FPGA technology,” said Tim Erjavec, senior director, platform solutions and services marketing at Xilinx. “The DSP targeted reference design included in the kit provides an easy to use, reusable design infrastructure to accelerate customer’s application development, and is a great example of how Xilinx is partnering with industry leaders like Avnet to rapidly deploy Targeted Design Platforms.”

For complete kit specs and to purchase, please visit www.em.avnet.com/virtex6dsp.

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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 atwww.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, visitwww.avnet.com.

PHOENIX — February 10, 2010 — The Avnet Electronics Marketing operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announces the availability of the Xilinx^® Virtex^®-6 FPGA DSP Development Kit as part of the Xilinx Targeted Design Platform for DSP design. Order entry is now open for the $2,995 kit that includes a device-locked version of ISE^® Design Suite: System Edition 11.4, which can be downloaded today so developers can quickly get started on their designs.

Wireless, aerospace and defense, instrumentation and medical imaging applications and other computationally-intensive applications demand greater digital signal processing performance and functionality to support high performance systems. This thirst for performance is made all the more challenging when combined with the need to react to emerging and or changing standards. FPGAs provide an ideal solution to these problems; single-chip TeraMAC/s performance and re-programmability that enable differentiation in a changing world.

To address this challenge, Avnet has worked with Xilinx to develop and release the first DSP development kit that combines Virtex-6 FPGA devices, a scalable development board, DSP IP, complete documentation and cables, with a Targeted Reference Design, and the DSP development tools required to evaluate, modify and extend the design.  For the first time, DSP designers can compare the merits of RTL against high-level design flows that use languages such as C/C++ and MATLAB® / Simulink®  software to determine the best design flow to bring their products to release. The Virtex-6 FPGA DSP Kit provides up to a 10x productivity advantage and an easier entry point for using FPGAs for DSP. By combining the elements of a total solution, the kit enables users to focus on the unique value of their design from the beginning of their design process. 

“With the introduction of the Virtex-6 FPGA DSP Kit, Avnet is offering its first domain specific targeted design platform,” said Jim Beneke, vice president, global technical marketing at Avnet Electronics Marketing. “This kit will help our customers quickly learn the different tool flows and design techniques involved in creating DSP-centric designs with the Virtex-6 FPGA family.”

A key component of the kit is the preconfigured and fully validated Virtex-6 DSP Targeted Reference Design. This design serves as a basis to illustrate DSP techniques and design flows for- Virtex-6 class of signal processing functions. The state of the art digital up converter (DUC) / digital down converter (DDC) Targeted Reference Design shows customers how to use advanced techniques such as clock over sampling, time division multiplexing and using high performance DSP48 slices for optimizing signal processing performance and resource use. The design flow based on Simulink and MATLAB from The MathWorks^TM allows algorithm developers to create DSP hardware designs using a familiar modeling environment without the need to learn RTL. Experienced RTL designers are provided design techniques for creating efficient DSP hardware using ISE Design Suite and LogicCore^TM DSP IP along with verification methodologies for comparing functional correctness against high-level algorithm models.

Below are the key deliverables of the Virtex-6 DSP Targeted Reference Design:

• Design Source files for RTL and Simulink
• Top level system integration RTL source files
• Simulation environment
• Testbenches 
• Implementation environment
• Complete steps and parameters for design synthesis
• MAP, place and route and timing closure
• Targeted reference design tutorials including recommended flows for design modification and integration

“The Virtex-6 DSP Development kit enables customers to get started immediately with a great out of the box experience and choice of design flows that maximizes customer’s productivity using Virtex-6 FPGA technology,” said Tim Erjavec, senior director, platform solutions and services marketing at Xilinx. “The DSP targeted reference design included in the kit provides an easy to use, reusable design infrastructure to accelerate customer’s application development, and is a great example of how Xilinx is partnering with industry leaders like Avnet to rapidly deploy Targeted Design Platforms.”

For complete kit specs and to purchase, please visit www.em.avnet.com/virtex6dsp.

Follow us on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/AvnetDesignWire 

Contribute to our technical forums @: http://community.em.avnet.com 

View product and company videos @ http://www.avnetondemand.com/components/channel/7/  

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 atwww.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, visitwww.avnet.com.