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Avnet Embedded has announced that two members of its customer-facing team have been presented with major performance awards by Microsoft. Nick Donaldson, director of Software, Avnet Embedded, received the Microsoft Franchise Manager of the Year award for outstanding leadership and management skills, and Cesare de Siena, business development manager, Italy also received a Circle of Excellence award for market innovation.

Following the success of the event in 2008, Avnet Embedded will this year be hosting the 2009 Embedded Solutions Seminar. Similar to last year, the event will again be targeted at Embedded developers, however this year, exclusive presentations will be given under NDA from Microsoft, Intel and Toshiba. The seminar will be held at the Microsoft Campus, Reading on November 12th. Admission to the seminar is free, and to attend the Microsoft, Intel &a...

Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller company, has won the Processors and Memories category of the French electronics industry's annual Electron d'Or awards. The Electron d'Or trophy was presented to Energy Micro's VP Sales EMEA Ian Fletcher at a ceremony held at the Paris headquarters of FIEEC, France's Federation of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Industries.

Kontron have topday revealed the introduction of the next-generation Digital Signage Evaluation Kit-12. The Kontron DSEK-12 is designed to help streamline the digital signage development and the evaluation process allowing OEM designers and advertisers alike to reduce the time to deployment and costs.

The nanoETXexpress Industrial Group is further strengthening its global presence with the addition of new members. The growing number of members highlights the position of nanoETXexpress in the market as the COM Express® based de-facto standard for highly ultra-small and energy-efficient designs. The wide-spread acceptance of the form factor introduced first by Kontron is due to its 100 percent compatibility with the COM Express® specification,...

Batteries are one area of electronics that have defied the downturn and sales are continuing to show healthy growth on the back of a growing desire to use professional and consumer electronics products on the move. The downside of this growth is the number of batteries finding their way into landfill, some of which include hazardous chemicals in their make-up.

NXP Semiconductors has announced that its CGV™ series of JESD204A-compliant data converters are now interoperable with Xilinx® high performance Virtex®-6 FPGAs and low-cost Spartan®-6 FPGA families. Assured interoperability and interworking between programmable logic devices and high-speed converters is a critical acceptance criterion for equipment designers, because it eliminates risk and cost associated with project schedules.

NXP Semiconductors today announced the appointment of Simon McLean as Vice President of Marketing for the company’s Standard Products business. Simon joins NXP with over 16 years of management experience within electronic components distribution and manufacturing. He will be responsible for helping drive NXP’s Standard Products business.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced that it will partner with Avnet, Inc. for the X-Fest global series of free technical seminars to be held in 37 locations around the world from October 2009 through February 2010. Interested parties can get more information and register for a local event at www.cypress.com/go/xfest.

Avnet Embedded, an Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) company, is bringing its Embedded Technical Seminar to Brussels after its success in The Netherlands. In partnership with Silica, Avnet Embedded will also be joined by Alten PTS, Alten Belgium, Intel and Windows® Embedded for the one-day free of charge seminar for embedded developers being held on 21st September 2010 at the Business Faculty in Brussels.