Munich -- EBV Elektronik, an Avnet Company, announced today that it was presented the awards for Best Distributor, Best Sales Team, and Best FAE categories for 2003 by Altera® Corporation.“Distribution plays a key role in Altera’s strategy to provide our customers with the highest level of support. EBV has done a superb job of supporting the technical and commercial requirements of our customers in Europe,” said Barry Ansell, marketing manager, Altera Europe. “The professional, dedicated, Altera-specialist FAEs at EBV ensure that customers derive maximum value for Altera’s programmable solutions and get to market quickly.”“To receive all three European Distribution Awards from Altera is a great honor for EBV.The awards underline the competence of our FAE team as well as the dedication and capability of EBV’s technical sales force,” said Patrick Zammit, President of EBV Elektronik.  “It also confirms once more that we are successful in executing our strategy of providing the best design support in the industry. EBV continues to deliver value to our customers and manufacturers, which in turn helps them to be successful players in their markets.” 

About Altera

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) is the world’s pioneer in system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions. 

Combining programmable logic technology with software tools, intellectual property, and technical services, Altera provides high-value     programmable solutions to approximately 14,000 customers worldwide. More information is available at www.altera.com.