Avnet has created our first-ever Smart Energy Forum in order to facilitate development of
smart energy applications. This online, on-demand technical training will take place on May 16 throughout the entire 24-hour day.

Smart energy application-specific solutions to be explored include:

• Smart Energy Coming Home — Home Energy Management Solutions
• Creating Highly Efficient, Highly Reliable Lighting Designs
• Power Conditioning and PFC for Smart Energy Solutions
• In Premises Display (IPD) Design Considerations
• IP-based HAN Available Now
• ZigBee Stack, Profiles & Interoperability
• Smart Meters: One Size Does Not Fit All
• Smart Grid Infrastructure — Keeping the Lights On
• How to Build a Complete Meter Solution with PLM Connectivity
• Photovoltaic Inverters — Improving Efficiency through Digital Signal Controllers

Fairchild Semiconductor, Freescale Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics, and Avnet Electronics Marketing are amongst our esteemed event partners. These partners will focus upon:

• Metering
• Infrastructure
• Home and building automation
• Energy generation and conversion

Don’t miss the Avnet Smart Energy Forum: an Avnet virtual conference

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You can’t beat the convenience of sitting in your office while surfing the web with everything you would ever want to know about SSDs at your fingertips.  This convenience is evident with Avnet Embedded’s first ever Solid State Drive Virtual Summit. Block your calendar for April 3 and 4, visit  Avnet Embedded SSD Virtual Summit and register to learn about the latest trends for SSD applications including tiered storage in data centers, SSDs in rugged embedded computing, high performance caching and much more. Not only will you receive a crash course on what solid state storage can offer, you will also have the opportunity to participate in a livechat with each presenter for 30 minutes. Watch 20 or more presentations and you will be included in a random drawing for an iPad!

Which SSD Suppliers will be presenting?

• Adaptec by PMC
• Dell
• HGST
• Intel
• Kingston
• LSI
• Micron/Crucial
• OCZ Technology
• Rorke Data
• SanDisk
• Seagate
• SMART
• STEC
• Toshiba

What are some of the topics that will be covered?

• Solid state drive for enterprise data center environments
• How to transition to SSDs in your infrastructure
• How to pick the right SSD for the job
• How to get the most of your SAS storage infrastructure
• And much, much more!

Register now – don’t get left behind!

As part of the Avnet Electronics Marketing division of Avnet, Inc., Avnet Embedded focuses on providing a full suite of embedded solutions – from storage, computing, software and networking products, to disk drives, flat panels and embedded boards from industry-leading suppliers. With a broad partner line card, a wealth of technical resources and a highly skilled team, Avnet Embedded delivers outstanding support for OEM,
embedded and commercial customers.

Or  The techie version of “Office Space”

Or A techie “Office Space”

Or A real world “Office Space”

Or Remember “PC load letter?”

An oldie, but a goodie guaranteed to amuse, and bring some
humor to your work day.

Ted and his colleague get an impossible assignment: add two
more power supply rails to their space-limited design. Watch how SIMPLE
SWITCHER® nano modules save their weekend in this video about a real-world
problem.

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While the world will be tuning in to the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood to watch the 84th Annual Academy Awards this Sunday, EBV is hosting its own awards event for cinematic success: The EBVtv Oscars. Live from Nuremberg at Embedded World, EBV will be touting its own cinematic success stories by awarding the most successful broadcasts on EBVtv in 2011.

Since its launch, EBVtv has tallied more than 150,000 video views, making it most
successful video portal in the EMEA semiconductor industry. Its high-production
values are unique in the sector and very well appreciated by EBV’s customers.

Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural EBVtv Oscars:

Prepared for the Future – Contactless Smart Metering Enhanced by NXP & EBV

Light the Way With Outstanding LED Technology – OSLON SSL from OSRAM and EBV

The Future of Low Power 32 bit Microcontrollers with Freescale and EBV

“The EBVtv Oscar is a great sign of recognition from our customers to our suppliers,” says Bernd Schlemmer, EBV’s communications director. “To be awarded an EBVtv Oscar
means that our customers are deeply interested in the products and technologies
our suppliers are presenting. Congratulations to all the winners! We also want
to give a big thank you to all of the suppliers producing EBVtv spots with us,
and to our colleagues from technical marketing who are also very involved in
these productions. Video content is a key element in online communications and
the fact that we were able to establish EBVtv as the portal of choice for our
customers makes us proud!”

Having been named as a UBM Electronics ACE Awards 2012
Finalist for “Energy Technology of the Year,” MAX17710 always delivers
optimal tools.

Avnet onDemand has added a video to its channel explaining
the ample benefits of MAX17710. Advantages listed in the MAX17710 video
include, but are not limited to:

1. a complete system for charging and protecting micropower-storage cells,
2. the IC can manage poorly regulated sources, and
3. the device also includes a boost regulator circuit for charging the cell from a source as low as 0.75V (typ). An internal regulator protects the cell from overcharging.

Simply put, MAX17710 makes charging and protecting painless.

To make the process easy, you can place an order immediately
or continue gathering information after the video.

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Avnet OnDemand is highlighting the newest Wireless products and solutions available from Avnet Memec and our supplier partners.  Wireless application are continuing to grow, from to low power Bluetooth, GPS, and Zigbee Technologies. Avnet OnDemand is the only placed you can see videos of all of these technologies in one place and, when you done viewing them you can get more information or place an order.  So if you want to stay ahead of the design curve in all things wireless I strongly suggest that you visit.

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The Power Event of the Century!
On September 21st, Avnet is hosting its virtual Power Forum. This event is about power design solutions. It has something to offer designers of all levels from beginner to expert. Participants will have access to more training content, more product information and more collective design expertise than ever before. Technology partners include Infineon, Maxim, National Semiconductor, TE Connectivity & Texas Instruments. There is no cost to attend. Register Here Watch Video