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News Release from: National Semiconductor | Subject: Webench
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 May 2001
Online wireless loop filter design tool
Avnet and National Semiconductor have launched an online tool that allows wireless design engineers to design, simulate and order a custom prototype wireless loop filter evaluation board.
Avnet Electronics Marketing and National Semiconductor have launched the semiconductor industry's first online tool that allows wireless design engineers to design, simulate, and order a custom prototype wireless loop filter evaluation board that can be shipped to customers worldwide in five business days Building a prototype, procuring parts, and fabricating a printed circuit board using traditional methods are challenging, time-consuming steps in the design of wireless products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"National's Webench design environment saves engineers 50 to 60 hours per design", said Bill Stacy, vice president, Wireless Division, National Semiconductor.
"By linking with Avnet to offer custom wireless prototype boards via a seamless online e-commerce environment, we will continue our leadership by again dramatically reducing the design time for new products".
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"EasyPLL is an exciting new web-based tool that will allow customers to speed the component selection and design-in process.
It is also a great example of an innovative partnership between a distributor and a supplier that leverages the resources and skill sets of both parties", said Joel Levine, vice president/director, RF and Microwave Product Business Group, Avnet Electronics Marketing.
"With EasyPLL, customers will benefit from the technical value-added expertise provided by National Semiconductor as well as the component sourcing and design support from Avnet.
The combination allows National and Avnet to meld design tools and evaluation boards into one powerful offering".
The process begins on national's wireless.national.com website, featuring Webench 2.0, the industry's first end-to-end online design tool set.
After creating and optimising a design using National's powerful EasyPLL simulator, an engineer can link to Avnet to order a complete bill of materials, have it assembled, tested, and shipped in five days.
Design engineers like B Thomas Pier, senior laboratory technician of the Eaton Corporation's Innovation Center are experiencing the time savings first-hand.
Pier says of the EasyPLL tool: "It was easy to use and was very helpful to receive the boards so quickly.
I would make use of the online tool again".
The EasyPLL web-based tool is also optimised for use on National's new LMX23xxU series of ultra-low power dual-PLL frequency synthesisers.
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