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Unlike other types of seminars where students sit through slide after slide of marketing mush, these workshops transfer real knowledge, created and presented by engineers for engineers. Knowledge gained by the design teams that built the hardware used in the workshop has been distilled down into the short presentations, hands on workshops and detailed applications notes used in the workshop. No time is wasted. Every minute is geared toward giving the student the knowledge needed to transfer the workshop experience into design productivity.
The workshop curriculum and agenda can be customized for your requirements and offered in a variety of ways. A single one-hour laboratory module can be presented at your location as a ‘lunch-and-learn’ event or a themed multi-track full-day event may be offered at the local sales office for 10 or more attendees. It all depends on your needs.The workshop material is presented by Avnet FAE's, experts on all the technology, products and applications covered by the workshop material.
To request the class topics YOU want to see in a customized Speedway Design Workshop just click on the Build Your Own Workshop link below. You can request any of a variety of listed subjects (covering technology, products and tools) and your local FAE will put together an event for you that covers the requested topics.
Workshop Elements
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Workshop Presentation Modules
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The presentation modules are short lecture oriented workshop sections that provide the background required to set the stage for specific hands-on laboratory modules and to expand on knowledge developed during the labs. Presentations are short, and to the point, with more detailed information provided in the form of applications notes and take-home labs, to be used by the student as follow-on, self-study course material.
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Hands-on Laboratory Exercises
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The hands-on laboratory exercises are completed in about an hour (including presentation time) and use Avnet Design Services created development kits. Students use design tools in conjunction with real hardware to create portions of a real application solution. Each lab reinforces key training elements of the Workshop and creates opportunities for follow-on material to build on the knowledge gained in the labs. Typically a Workshop has at least three labs for a core curriculum of around 3 hours.
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Demonstrations
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In addition to presentations, labs and application notes the Workshop offers demonstrations based on Avnet Design Services and supplier designed development kits and reference designs. These demos, like in an exhibit at a conference, are shown during breaks to illustrate additional design solutions and tools recommended by ADS.
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Application Notes
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Application notes are authored by Avnet Design Services, suppliers and or third parties and are specifically created for use in the Workshop. The app-notes build on presentations and laboratory exercises. App-notes are an excellent way to provide in depth analysis and design details, difficult to cover quickly in the Workshop, but easy to do in a written form. Attendees can use these application notes to further accelerate their time to market in the targeted applications.
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Take-Home Laboratories
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Take-home laboratories are similar to in Workshop labs, but are completed by students after the Workshop. They use the same hardware as the labs in the Workshop and may build on exercises previously completed. Optionally, take-home labs may be used in an extended Workshop, perhaps in a follow-on day or in place of a Workshop presentation.
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Themed SpeedWay Workshop Series Events
Some locations will be giving multiple course events geared around specific applications and markets. Look for these themes as more events are planned and content made available for use by your FAE team.
WD1: DSP On-Ramp- Enabling DSP in FPGAs
FPGAs and DSP processors are working together in powerful and innovative Video/Imaging, Telecommunications, Medical, Industrial, and Consumer applications. Attend a FREE 1/2-day DSP "On-Ramp" Seminar from Avnet Electronics and learn how FPGAs can be used as pre- and post-processors to accelerate critical signal processing functions. Topics include the following:
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Backgrounder of the common signal processing functions along with a description of how they can be implemented in an FPGA
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Overview of DSP design strategies, such as how to eliminate processing bottlenecks by partitioning the signal processing task between a Xilinx FPGA and a traditional programmable DSP processor
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Examination of the simulation and design flows enabled by MathWorks’ Matlab, Simulink, Avnet’s DSP Design Kit, and the Xilinx System Generator for Digital Signal Processing
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Case Studies to drive home the above concepts
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Live demos of the Design Tools used to build high performance DSP applications
Additional Information and Registration
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