Avnet RF Design Services and Philips Semiconductor Connect with Bluetooth Development Kit; Avnet Bluekit Introduced.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2001 Avnet's RF Design Services (RF ADS) Bluetooth Competency Center introduces Avnet Bluekit. The kit features Philips Semiconductors' PCF PCF - A simply typed, functional language. ["Fully Abstract Translations Between Functional Languages", J. Riecke, 18th POPL, pp. 245-254 (1991)]. ["LCF Considered as a Programming Language", Theor CS 5:223, 1977]. 87750 Bluetooth baseband controller, which supports point-to-multipoint Bluetooth connections and Bluetooth v1.1; with BGB BGB Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (German: Code of Civil Law) BGB British Gaming Blog BGB Barcelona Guide Bureau BGB Brilliant Green Bile (microbiological water testing) BGB Big Girls Blouse 100 radio module. The Avnet Bluekit(TM) is designed to enable rapid adoption of Bluetooth technology by application developers into their end products. The solution is by far the most integrated device with flash memory and CODEC built in. Avnet Bluekit is the result of a strategic relationship between Avnet Asia Pte Ltd PTE LTD Private Limited (RF Design Services) and Philips Semiconductors International BV, through its Bluetooth Competency Center, Singapore, to deliver a complete set of Bluetooth(TM) solutions. "Avnet is proud to team up with Philips Semiconductors to introduce Bluetooth solutions to the marketplace. Entering into a strategic relationship with Philips, we are confident that our potential customers will adopt this Bluetooth technology quickly into their end products and hence, improve their time-to-market," said Andy Wong, director of Avnet RF & Microwave Product Business Group. "Our partnership also represents a key element in our overall wireless product strategy. We are confident that the combined development between the two Singapore-based competency centers -- Philips Semiconductors' Bluetooth Competency Center (BTCC BTCC British Touring Car Championship BTCC Biological Threat Characterization Center (US DHS) BTCC Brooktree Closed Caption ) and Avnet's RF Design Services (RF ADS) -- will make us one of the leaders in Bluetooth development," he added. Ruud van der Linden, senior vice president, Philips Semiconductors said, "Bluetooth wireless technology has tremendous market potential. As a worldwide leading semiconductor manufacturer, Philips Semiconductors is the first manufacturer to introduce commercial Bluetooth chipsets. "We are keen to develop ideal products for our customers to fully take advantage of this advanced wireless technology and offer our customers more convenient, effective and comprehensive solutions to help them achieve quick application design. "To help more customers benefit from our leading-edge products, we are glad to have Avnet, our authorized Asia Pacific distributor, release the Avnet Bluekit to assist customers entering the Bluetooth market." About Bluetooth Bluetooth is a short-range "cable replacement" wireless technology, which is set to revolutionize the personal connectivity market by providing freedom from wired connections. It intends to provide a small-form factor, low-power and low-cost wireless solution to link between portable consumer products, computers and their peripherals, mobile phones and other portable handheld devices on an ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. basis. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is the body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers. (BSIG BSIG Bluetooth Special Interest Group ) is comprised of leaders in the telecommunications, computing and network industries. The BSIG includes promoters (3Com, Ericsson, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba) and more than 2,000 other Adopters and Associate members companies today. About Avnet RF Design Services Avnet RF Design Services (ADS) enable Avnet customers to outsource their design engineering services. Avnet Design Services include turnkey designs, customer-integrated circuit designs and reusable intellectual property. ADS supplements customers' in-house engineering resources, reduces the need for them to invest in costly engineering development tools and cuts time to market. About Avnet Asia Pte Ltd Avnet Asia Pte. Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Phoenix-based Avnet Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ), a Fortune 500 company with sales exceeding U.S.$12.8 billion. Avnet Inc. is one of the world's largest technology marketers, distributing 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, embedded systems and computer products from leading manufacturers. Serving customers in 63 countries, Avnet markets, inventories and adds value to these products and provides world-class supply-chain management and engineering design services. The company's web site is located at www.avnet.com. About Philips Semiconductors Philips Semiconductors, which had annual revenues of approximately U.S.$6.3 billion in 2000, designs and manufactures semiconductors and silicon systems platforms. Philips Semiconductors is spearheading the emerging field of systems on silicon solutions with the innovative Nexperia(TM) platform and VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. Velocity(TM) tool set. The company's Sea-of-IP(TM) design methodology allows plug-and-play intellectual property blocks for easily customizable products. The company is a leader in communications, consumer, PC peripherals and automotive semiconductors, which are key applications for convergence in end-user products. Philips Semiconductors is headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands and has operations throughout the world. For more information: www.semiconductors.philips.com. BLUETOOTH is a trademark owned by Bluetooth SIG Inc. and licensed to Avnet Inc. AVNET BLUEKIT is a trademark of Avnet Inc. |
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