Nu
Horizons Electronics Corp. Announces New Development Board
Based on the Xilinx Spartan-3™ FPGA
Board Designed to Provide Low Cost 400K Gate FPGA Solution
for Evaluating Soft Processor, DSP, Industrial System
and Universal Prototyping Applications
Melville,
New York - March 23, 2004 - Nu Horizons Electronics
Corp. (NASDAQ:NUHC), a leading distributor of high technology
active components, today announced the immediate availability
of their 400k Gate Spartan-3 FPGA development board, created
to provide a low cost solution for design engineers looking
to pursue a variety of embedded FPGA applications. Powered
by the Xilinx Spartan-3™ FPGA technology, this board
offers a complete customized development environment for
building and evaluating a broad range of system designs
for system interface, DSP functions and embedded processing,
and includes the appropriate hardware to develop and test
high-speed applications.
Athar
Zafar, vice president of engineering for Nu Horizons explains,
"We have learned from our customers that generating
low cost development tools is very beneficial to them.
The Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA family has all of the features
necessary to meet today's most demanding high performance
embedded FPGA applications. Leveraging that technology,
and the extremely low cost of the Spartan-3 family, our
design team has created a feature-rich 400k Gate Spartan-3
board at one of the lowest prices obtainable in the market."
The
400k Gate Spartan-3 FPGA Development Board is available
for immediate shipment today at a price of $164.00. The
board was recently displayed within the Xilinx booth at
the SAE World Congress Show, March 8-11 in Detroit, and
will be demonstrated in both the Nu Horizons booth (#826)
and Xilinx booth (#1326) at the upcoming electronicaUSA
/ Embedded Systems Conference March 29-April 1, in San
Francisco.
For
additional board specifics, including detailed features,
benefits and applications, please visit us online at: http://www.nuhorizons.com/spartan-3.
Information on Nu Horizons' complete offering of development
tools is also available at: http://www.nuhorizons.com/developmenttools.
About
Nu Horizons Electronics Corp.
Nu Horizons is a leading global distributor of high technology
active components, including analog, communications, discretes,
optical, logic & peripherals, memory, microcontrollers,
system on chip (SOC), board level and computer system
products to a wide variety of commercial original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs). With sales facilities in thirty-five
locations across North America and Asia, and logistics
centers in centralized locations throughout the globe,
Nu Horizons partners with a limited number of best-in-class
suppliers to provide in-depth product and solutions expertise
to its customers. Information on Nu Horizons and its services
is available at http://www.nuhorizons.com.
Except
for historical information contained herein, the matters
set forth in this news release are forward looking statements
that involve certain risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking
statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include
such factors as the level of business and consumer spending
for electronic products, the amount of sales of the Company's
products, the competitive environment within the electronic
component industry, the ability of the Company to continue
to expand its operations, the level of costs incurred
in connection with the Company's expansion efforts and
the financial strength of the Company's customers and
suppliers. Investors are also directed to consider other
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