Avnet Memec, a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing – an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), and Microchip Technology Inc., (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of Microcontroller and analog semiconductors, will co-host the Embedded Designer’s Forum (EDF). Designers can learn to enhance their embedded designs with the latest low-power, connectivity, user-interface, and other technologies at locations throughout North America beginning October 6, 2009.

Avnet Memec will offer EDF attendees a 25 percent discount on design tools featured during the event. For more information on featured Microchip kits and to register, please visit www.em.avnet.com/MicrochipEDF.