"With MicroZed, design teams have the option of doing design exploration and prototyping on the exact board that they can use in their product as an SOM, which can offer significant time-to-market and cost advantages," said Jim Beneke, vice president of global technical marketing for Avnet Electronics Marketing. "At less than half the cost of other available Zynq development kits, MicroZed is the logical choice for the Zynq-based engineering community." "With the new MicroZed, Avnet is offering an excellent development platform for engineers who are looking to adopt the Zynq-7000 SoC and accelerate their time to market," said Barrie Mullins, worldwide director of business development for Xilinx. "It offers users a great way to not only learn the Zynq tool flow, but to leverage their work for faster product development."