Avnet Design Services, Celoxica Announce Distribution Agreement.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2002

Avnet Design Expertise and Celoxica's DK1 Design Suite

will Improve FPGA Design Productivity

for Customers Throughout the Americas

Avnet Design Services (ADS) and Celoxica Limited Thursday announced an agreement by which ADS will distribute the Celoxica DK1 design suite to customers throughout the Americas.

ADS field applications engineers (FAEs) will receive certified product training to assist their Xilinx FPGA customers with the evaluation and use of Celoxica's DK1 design suite. ADS will also use DK1 for design service engagements in its Xilinx FPGA design centers. ADS is the technical arm of Avnet Electronics Marketing, the largest operating group of Avnet Inc. (NYSE:AVT).

"With the arrival of new high-capacity FPGAs, like the Xilinx Virtex-II family, designers are finding it a challenge to complete complex algorithmic FPGA designs on schedule," said Warren Miller, vice president of marketing for Avnet Design Services.

"The Celoxica design suite offers designers a revolutionary approach to solving this problem -- going from high-level, algorithmic C code directly to an FPGA implementation. Not only does this tool provide a high productivity increase to existing FPGA designs, it brings a whole new class of designers, previously software focused, into the FPGA camp.

"ADS is pleased to bring this tool to its existing customers as well as to use it to expand its customer base."

"There are several ways in which our new partnership with Avnet Design Services benefits customers wanting to use DK1 to target Xilinx FPGAs," said Dennis Nye, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, Celoxica.

"ADS' operations combine considerable FPGA design expertise and resources including a large field applications engineering capability, engineering design centers and a technical marketing group. We look forward to working with ADS to bring these benefits to DK1 customers throughout the Americas in 2002."

DK1 Description

The DK1 design suite targets the design, validation, iterative refinement and implementation of complex algorithms in hardware. It includes built-in design entry, simulation, and synthesis -- all driven by Handel-C, a design-entry language based on ANSI C that combines parallelism with a central timing model.

Developers with knowledge of the C programming language find DK1's Handel-C language simple to use. With its intuitive, hardware-specific constructs, Handel-C lets software developers quickly code hardware designs.

DK1's integrated Handel-C-to-gate-level synthesis and optimization eliminates the need for any interim HDL stage or the need to maintain any additional code stream. The integrated Handel-C compiler lets developers generate optimized EDIF netlists appropriate for targeting FPGAs using Xilinx Place and Route tools. In addition, DK1 can optionally generate VHDL for traditional ASIC flows.

A detailed description of the kit is available at www.avnet.com/em/solutions/CeloxicaDK1.

ADS Engineering Design Services to Support DK1

Avnet Design Services has Celoxica-certified design engineers who can use the DK1 design suite, on a fee for service basis, to assist customers targeting Xilinx FPGAs. ADS design engineers who are familiar with the Celoxica design suite and Xilinx FPGAs can take a customer's C high-level language application and convert it directly to an FPGA.

This can cut a customer's time to market by an order of magnitude, in some cases. For more information on this service offering visit www.avnet.com/em/solutions/FPGADesign.

About Avnet Design Services

Avnet Design Services (ADS) is the technical arm of Avnet Electronics Marketing. ADS provides a variety of technical resources and capabilities to speed customers' design cycles and to get their products to market quicker.

Field applications engineers (FAEs) are knowledgeable about a variety of potential applications solutions for customers' design problems and can guide an engineer to the solution that is right for their particular application. ADS provides engineering services, for a fee, in FPGA, ASIC and System Design to Avnet customers, as a way to enable significant component sales opportunities.

For more information visit the Avnet Design Services Web site at www.ads.avnet.com.

About Avnet Electronics Marketing

Avnet Electronics Marketing (EM) is the largest operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet Inc., a Fortune 500 company with fiscal year 2001 sales of $12.8 billion (year ended June 30, 2001).

One of the world's largest distributors of semiconductors, interconnect, passive and electromechanical components from leading manufacturers, Avnet EM markets, inventories and adds value to these products and provides world-class supply-chain management and engineering design services. Avnet EM serves customers in 63 countries. The company's Web site is located at www.avnet.com.

About Celoxica

Celoxica provides software tools, development boards, and design services that enable the rapid development of new functionality for programmable logic devices. Celoxica's high-level approach leverages the world's first integrated development environment for true "C" to hardware synthesis, supported by a range of development boards for rapid prototyping.

The company's products and services deliver hardware-accelerated solutions for overcoming system performance bottlenecks, improving designer productivity and addressing design skills shortages.

Celoxica has alliances and partnerships with Altera Corp., Avnet Design Services, Wind River Systems Inc. and Xilinx Inc. The company is headquartered in Abingdon, U.K., with additional offices in Campbell, Calif.; Yokohama, Japan; and Singapore. For further information about Celoxica, please visit: www.celoxica.com.

Celoxica and the Celoxica logo are the trademarks of Celoxica Limited. Any other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.