Avnet Design Services Develops Interface Adaptor for Texas Instruments Data Converter Devices and Xilinx FPGAs.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2003

A new interface adaptor designed by Avnet Design Services allows designers to integrate existing Texas Instruments data converter evaluation modules (EVMs) with Avnet Design Services' evaluation and development kits for Xilinx FPGAs. The adaptor allows 29 different Texas Instruments EVMs to interface with 12 different Avnet-designed evaluation and development boards featuring Xilinx Spartan-2/2E/3 and Virtex-2/2Pro FPGAs. Designers for applications such as industrial control and data acquisition will be able to quickly and easily create complete development platforms for FPGA-based embedded control and DSP applications requiring data conversion devices.

Designers can create a hardware platform by combining the correct TI data conversion devices and Xilinx FPGAs and then augment the design with specific IP cores and design tools from Xilinx, Avnet and third-party providers. This will speed time to revenue for a variety of applications such as consumer digital media, security, and wireless infrastructure. The board is available separately or with optional Xilinx development kits, IP cores and software tools.

"Texas Instruments is pleased to partner with Avnet and Xilinx on this project as there are a significant number of applications that feature a data converter alongside an FPGA," said Rick Downs, application manager, Texas Instruments Data Acquisition Products. "The Avnet solution allows a designer to quickly evaluate and design Texas Instruments data acquisition products in conjunction with Xilinx FPGAs, which will accelerate their time to market. For instance, a designer using a Xilinx Virtex-2 FPGA in a motor control application can use Avnet's adaptor board to quickly connect to any of the growing line of Texas Instruments modular data acquisition EVMs, trimming days or even weeks off the development cycle."

"The Avnet-designed Texas Instruments interface adaptor can be used to create a complete hardware platform for prototype development. Our Xilinx development boards have a variety of additional peripherals and interfaces that are usually required in applications using Texas Instruments data converter devices -- memory, PCI, Ethernet, USB, audio and video processors and just about any other function embedded applications require are available," explained Warren Miller, vice president of marketing for Avnet Design Services. "The ability for a design engineer to complete a rapid prototype is greatly enhanced when these hardware platforms are augmented by the variety of available IP."

The interface adaptor is available for shipment today. Contact an Avnet sales office or visit the Web at www.avnetavenue.com for more information. Ordering part numbers and prices are:

ADS-TI-EVM-IA $149.00

The Texas Instruments interface adaptor features include:

-- Two serial data converter sites or one dual-serial site

-- One parallel data converter site

-- Two signal conditioning sites

-- AvBus standard evaluation board

-- On-board power supply for data converter and signal

conditioning EVMs

Kit Contents:

-- Texas Instruments Analog Adapter Board

-- User's guide, schematics, BOM

-- Demonstration VHDL code

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