FEATURES
- Synaptics capacitive touchscreens: Just the right touch for appliances
June 24, 2010 | 7:59 pm
Touch user interfaces have made significant advances in the consumer electronics market particularly for mobile phones and notebook computers, opening the door for adoption in other applications including white goods, computer peripherals, medical equipment, and instrumentation. Synaptics made its debut in the home appliance market earlier this year with the launch of the Samsung Hauzen ZERO air conditioner. - SID 2010 roundup: Day 3
May 27, 2010 | 7:27 pm
The standout products on day three of the SID 2010 conference is Universal Display's new PHOLED display architecture with a unique four-color, sub-pixel design, which promises to drive commercial development of all-phosphorescent active-matrix OLEDs and Sony's tiny rollable OLED display that can wrap around a pencil. - Top 50 Distribution Leaders
May 13, 2010 | 1:55 pm
Smaller distributors were the only ones to post sales gains in 2009. Interestingly, two of the five distributors that posted growth last year -- Interstate Connecting Components and Sherburn Electronics -- derive 100 percent of their sales from interconnect products. Both of them also target the military/aerospace industry. Here are the top 10 sales leaders by ICs, passives/electromechanical devices, interconnects and computer products as well as sales growth.
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Linecard Expansions
- Digi-Key, PEWA expand distribution agreement
July 23, 2010 | 6:06 pmDigi-Key’s expanded distribution agreement with Panasonic Electric Works Corporation of America (PEWA) allows the distributor to sell PEWA’s products in the Asia-Pacific territories, in addition to the existing franchises for the Americas, Japan, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.
- Arrow, Exar sign pan-European distribution agreement
July 23, 2010 | 5:59 pmExar as signed a pan-European distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics to distribute its entire product portfolio.
- Symmetry signs AvaLAN Wireless Systems
July 21, 2010 | 4:30 pmSymmetry Electronics has signed an agreement with AvaLAN Wireless Systems to distribute its entire product lineup, targeting its long range RF modules.
- Digi-Key, Silicon Labs offer 24-hr lead times for programmable XOs
July 20, 2010 | 5:47 pmSilicon Laboratories Digi-Key are partnering to deliver high-performance programmable oscillators (XOs) with 24-hour lead times.
- TTI adds Cooper Bussmann products
July 15, 2010 | 2:12 pmTTI has entered into a global distribution agreement with Cooper Bussmann to distribute the Coiltronics, PowerStor and Bussmann product brands.
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Distribution
Learn how to integrate Xilinx FPGAs with high-speed data converters
Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, along with MathWorks and Texas Instruments, is offering a new series of workshops targeted at digital signal processing (DSP) system design using Xilinx FPGAs with high-speed data converters. These workshops will start on September 21, 2010, and will be held at locations throughout North America. »
Digi-Key sensors magazine available online
If you're looking for technical and product information about sensors, electronic components distributor Digi-Key has released its second issue of its "Digi-Key TechZone" magazine online focused on sensors. »
Digi-Key to host lighting, system design symposium
Electronic components distributor Digi-Key will host a virtual conference on lighting and system design, August 26, 2010. »
Avnet reports record sales
Avnet Inc. has reported that its quarterly revenue for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010, ended July 3, 2010, increased 38.5 percent year-over-year reaching a record $5.21 billion, with fiscal year 2010 revenue growing by 18.1 percent year-over-year, achieving a record $19.16 billion. »
element14 launches legislation portal
element14, Premier Farnell's online technology resource and community for electronic design engineers, has launched an electronics industry legislation information portal. »
Digi-Key launches first tech zone pub online
Digi-Key launches inaugural online Digi-Key Tech Zone magazine. The first issue focuses on Microcontroller Solutions, which is also one of the distributor's four featured Technology Zones -- microcontrollers, sensors, lighting and wireless -- featured at the Website. »
America II Electronics has 600+ million caps in stock
Despite a shortage of capacitors in the market, America II Electronics says its poised to meet customer demand with more than 600 million capacitors in stock from 200+ suppliers. »
Newark doubles Maxim inventory
Newark, part of global Premier Farnell, has doubled the number of products from Maxim Integrated Devices including some of the latest medical and industrial devices it stocks for same-day shipping. »
EMA adds Future Electronics parts database to component data solution
EMA Design Automation has added Future Electronics to the list of component distributors included in the new 4.0 version of Component Information Portal (CIP), the company's component data management solution. »
Register to win EAGLE’s design software at ESC
Engineers attending Chicago's Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), June 8 -9, have a chance to win a standard edition of Cadsoft’s EAGLE PCB design software, from element14, by registering at Booth 307. Named 2010 product of the year by Elektronik Magazine, the software’s latest version 5.10.0 incorporates “DesignLink” functionality, enabling users to access part pricing... »
EA Blog
- Next-gen smartphones need multisensor devices
July 13, 2010 | 12:31 pmThere is no doubt that designers of next-generation smartphones will add gyroscopes to their bills of material for enhanced gaming functionality and indoor location-based services. But, most likely, we will start to see, in addition to multi-axis gyroscopes, more multisensor packages that combine accelerometers and a gyroscope. The benefits: speedier design, simplified supply chain and lower costs.
- Global Wind Day: Five wind facts
June 14, 2010 | 5:40 pmThe American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has highlighted “Five Wind Facts,” a guide to the benefits of wind energy as one effort to market Global Wind Day, June 15. AWEA also plans to announce the winner of its Twitter background photo contest via Facebook and Twitter on Global Wind Day.
- Mobile designs fuel the demand for smaller, cheaper and less power hungry accelerometers
May 27, 2010 | 7:39 pmSeveral top suppliers of three-axis accelerometers — including Analog Devices, Bosch Sensortec, Freescale, and STMicro — have beefed up their product portfolios over the past year with some significant enhancements aimed at lower power consumption, higher resolution, and smaller packaging.
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New Products
- NXP low-power IC targets solar PV apps
August 27, 2010 | 6:08 pm
NXP offers a low-power IC aimed at MPPT applications using PV cells or fuel cells. - C&K mini slide switches withstand high temps
August 27, 2010 | 5:59 pm
C&K Components offers a series of low-cost, miniature slide switches. The OS Series of RoHS-compliant switches feature a new high-temperature option for lead-free soldering. - Archive for New Products »