Avnet Design Services and emWare Announce Customer Training Workshops for Internet-Enabled, Embedded Applications.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2001 Hands-On Classes Feature emWare(R) EMIT(R) Software and Motorola 68HC908GP32 Processor Avnet Design Services (ADS), the technical arm of Avnet Electronics Marketing, Wednesday joined device networking Using an Ethernet LAN to interconnect sensors, instruments, machine tools, medical monitors, restaurant appliances, POS terminals and other devices. In the mid-1990s, Comtrol Corporation created the first "device server," which converts serial transmission to Ethernet, enabling and remote management solutions provider emWare Inc. and chip manufacturer Motorola Inc. to launch hands-on customer training classes on Internet-enabled, embedded applications An application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in a non-volatile memory such as ROM or flash memory. . The classes will be available to customers who purchase the Avnet 68HC908GP32 emWare(R)-Enabled Development Kit. The kit, class and Avnet-trained field application engineers (FAEs) provide design engineers with everything needed to quickly add remote device management capabilities to new or existing designs. The customer workshops will be offered at Avnet sales offices, beginning in December 2001, by ADS technical marketing application engineers. Over a four hour period students will install and configure a remote, embedded application based on the Motorola 68HC908GP32 processor and emWare's EMIT device networking software. Laboratory exercises will teach students how to create control panels and program the processor to provide information over the network. Initial workshops are scheduled to be held in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. during the week of Dec. 17. "These customer workshops are tailored to accelerate our customers' time to market for embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. , network enabled applications," said Warren Miller There are several people of note named Warren Miller, including
"We find that engineers see these hands-on workshops as the fastest way to come up to speed on a new technology or application. In many cases, an engineer can walk out of the class with a major portion of their design completed. This gives them a big advantage at the beginning of their design." "Time to market is key to product success and the GP32 Development Kit combined with the Avnet training workshop will give developers a competitive edge," said Paul Carter Paul Carter is the name of:
"This informative training will provide valuable hands-on experience, including Java user interface creation and Internet-based device reflashing. We are pleased to be working with Avnet and Motorola to accelerate their customers' implementations of device networking and remote management solutions." The Avnet 68HC908GP32 emWare-Enabled Development Kit is available from Avnet Design Services and is priced at $249.95 USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. . Every customer who purchases a kit is eligible to attend an Avnet hands-on workshop. To order a kit, register for a workshop, or for more information, visit www.avnet.com/em/solutions/gp32emw. Kit Description The Avnet 68HC908GP32 emWare-Enabled Development Kit combines all the features and functionality of Motorola's 68HC908GP32 8-bit FLASH microcontroller A single chip that contains the processor (the CPU), non-volatile memory for the program (ROM or flash), volatile memory for input and output (RAM), a clock and an I/O control unit. with emWare's EMIT device-networking software to create a powerful, low-cost development solution. emWare's EMIT software offers a complete device-networking infrastructure that allows manufacturers to deliver networked, intelligent devices that can be managed and controlled remotely over any wide area network, including the Internet or paging networks. Available exclusively from Avnet Design Services, the Avnet 68HC908GP32 emWare-Enabled Development Kit also doubles as a microcontroller target system, which significantly reduces designer development requirements and product time to market. A detailed description of the kit is available at www.avnet.com/em/solutions/gp32emw. Engineering Design Services In addition to offering the development kit, Avnet Design Services is providing certified See certification. design engineering resources, on a fee-for-service basis, to help customers speed their time to market. Avnet Design Services engineers are experts trained in developing embedded device networking and remote management solutions using emWare software and Motorola-based processors. These design engineers can cut customers' time to market significantly, by customizing a board support package specifically for the customers end application for the Development Kit. This package would provide the "glue" between the processor and the customers' end application code -- allowing the customer to focus on the application, not the hardware details. About Avnet Design Services Avnet Design Services is the technical arm of Avnet Electronics Marketing, providing 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 engineers to the solution that is right for their particular applications. Fee-for-service engineering services, in FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. , ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. and System Design are offered to Avnet customers. For more information, visit the Avnet Design Services Web site at http://www.ads.avnet.com. About Avnet Electronics Marketing Avnet Electronics Marketing (EM) is the largest operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ), a Fortune 500 company with annual sales exceeding $12.8 billion. One of the world's largest distributors of semiconductors, interconnect, passive and electromechanical The use of electricity to run moving parts. Disk drives, printers and motors are examples. Electromechanical systems must be designed for the eventual deterioration of moving components that wear over time. The first TVs were electromechanical systems (see video/TV history). 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 http://www.avnet.com. About emWare Inc. emWare makes it fast, easy and affordable to add remote management capabilities to electronic devices, helping companies increase profits, productivity and customer satisfaction. emWare delivers products and services based on its EMIT software for adding remote management to new and legacy devices and device networks. Whether they are used for aggregating data or delivering remote servicing and diagnostics, manufacturers use emWare products and services to extend the value of their industrial, commercial and consumer products. Using emWare products and services benefit companies in all industries, from utilities, building automation and vending to home and commercial appliances. UPSIDE Upside The potential dollar amount by which the market or a stock could rise. Notes: This is basically an educated guess on how high a stock could go in the near future. See also: Bull, Downside Magazine named emWare among the "Hot 100" private companies for 2001. emWare founded the ETI (Embed The Internet) An earlier consortium that was devoted to putting Web servers into microcontrollers used in embedded systems. Using a Web server enables access to the device via any Web browser. See Web server and microcontroller. Alliance -- a group of leading technology and service companies that are extending the Internet to everyday devices, especially those made with 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers. Established in May 1996, emWare Inc. is a private company with headquarters in Salt Lake City and an office in Munich, Germany. For more information about emWare please visit http://www.emware.com. Note: Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners. |
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