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extensive databases with current reference design and
failure analysis information.
The labs allow AC engineers to work in collaboration with customers to integrate
board-level systems around industry standard, embedded computing products.
Using customers’ intellectual property, which includes product interfaces and
software, AC engineers build computing equipment for devices such as blood
analyzers, telecommunication systems, automated teller machines, point-of-sale
systems and film editing equipment. Once a prototype is completed in the lab, the
design is transferred to one of two AC Integration Centers in Phoenix, Arizona,
or Nettetal, Germany, where they are ramped to volume production.
AC opened its first state-of-the-art technology showcase early in FY’01, developed
in partnership with leading suppliers like IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Motorola
to demonstrate how cutting-edge products like flat-panel displays and single
board computers relate to one another in real-world applications. This hands-
on approach allows customers to study the methods AC designers use to integrate
several manufacturers’ products into vertical-market applications. It also shows
them how they can remove time-intensive testing cycles from their own design
cycles by demonstrating the performance of actual applications. Another tech-
nology showcase opened in Peabody, Massachusetts as FY’02 began, and more are
planned for Europe.
Applied Computing’s technology showcases provide working reference designs to help original equipment
manufacturers get their products to market first.
Originally launched in early FY’01
and then updated in early FY’02,
Avnet FasTrac™is a secure Web
portal that provides customers
a seamless, integrated flow of
information throughout AC’s
“First to Market” process.