The Soft Pitch

Getting quick answers to technical questions can be a bit frustrating as most of us know.  My daughter’s laptop froze up recently, so I did a quick online search, found the answer in a technical forum in just a few minutes (unfortunately looks like it’s something I can’t fix like replacing a battery, everything is indicating static electricity zapped her mother board). For design engineers, the problems are considerably more complex and best answered by other engineers and technical experts like those at Avnet. 

So last month, quietly and without much fanfare, Avnet Electronics Marketing launched online technical forums . Some of the questions are way beyond me, like on the discussion forum for the Spartan 3A Evaluation Kit someone asks:   “Can I do a microblaze design with the Webpack?” Apparently the answer is yes, and anyone asking the same thing will get an instant answer by checking the forums. Just another cool way Avnet is helping its customers get done what they need to get done better and faster.

You can check out the forums at: http://community.em.avnet.com/avnet/ .

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