Winland Electronics, Inc. Joins Freescale Semiconductor Design Alliance Program
* Provides privileged access to cutting edge Freescale technology, information and services
MANKATO, Minn., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Winland Electronics, Inc. (AMEX: WEX), a leading designer and manufacturer of custom electronic control products and systems has been selected to join the Freescale Semiconductor Design Alliance Program. The program involves a worldwide network of qualified developers such as Winland working with Freescale's embedded semiconductor solutions to create innovative enhanced designs for current and future products. By forming alliances with industry leading designers like Winland, Freescale enables customers to quickly connect with experienced design resources and accelerate time-to-market.
Winland President and Chief Executive Officer, Lorin Krueger commented, "We differentiate ourselves from our competitors by technical expertise and novel design. We are pleased to work with Freescale, an organization on the cutting edge of technical design and product innovation. The Freescale collaboration is a key part of our strategy to provide the best possible product realization services for our customers."
Freescale will support Winland's effort to continue providing the best solution to its customers by providing privileged access to Freescale's non-public resources such as pre-released product technical data, product roadmaps and Freescale's online tools library. To streamline Winland's development process, Freescale offers a variety of options for selecting the best semiconductor products from its online tools library and on its non-public product summary pages.
Greg Burneske, Winland's Director of Engineering said, "This announcement expands our capabilities, giving our team increased ability to design Freescale's leading edge semiconductor technology into their products. Being selected into the Freescale Design Alliance Program affirms our position as a leader in new product development. This relationship will be valuable to our customers, giving us access to design solutions that are not available in the public domain."
About Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE: FSL)(NYSE: FSL.B) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member of the S&P 500(R), is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies. http://www.freescale.com/
About Winland Electronics, Inc.
Winland Electronics is an Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) company, providing product development and manufacturing expertise and innovation for more than 20 years. Winland's product development offering includes program management, analog circuit design, digital circuit design, printed circuit board design and embedded software design. Winland differentiates itself from the contract manufacturer competition with its integrated product development and manufacturing services to offer end-to-end product launch capability, including design for manufacturability, design for testability, transition to manufacturing and order fulfillment. Winland's core competency is delivering time-to-market through superior program management, experience, integrated development processes, and cross-functional teams. Winland Electronics is based in Mankato, MN.
For further information, please contact Lorin E. Krueger, Chief Executive Officer of Winland Electronics, Inc., +1-507-625-7231; or Brett Maas of Hayden Communications, +1-212-988-2206, for Winland Electronics, Inc.
CONTACT: Lorin E. Krueger, Chief Executive Officer of Winland
Electronics, Inc., +1-507-625-7231; or Brett Maas of Hayden Communications,
+1-212-988-2206, for Winland Electronics, Inc.
Web site: http://www.freescale.com/
Web site: http://www.winland.com/
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