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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Tag Archive
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. »
Newark supplies Linear Tech uModule transceiver eval kit
Newark is the exclusive distributor of Linear Technology's Isolator uModule Transceiver evaluation kits. Same-day shipping is available for both kits. »
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... »
Newark supplies Tyco Electronics MultiGig RT connectors
Newark now carries Tyco Electronics' MultiGig RT family used in VITA 46 applications. These connectors provide high-speed data rates for communications, military, medical and industrial control applications not available with traditional VME connectors. »
ESC: element14 presents lifetime achievement awards
element14 will present engineering veterans Bob Pease, Martin Giles and Nick Gray with lifetime achievement awards at an element14 LIVE event in San Jose on April 28, 2010. Engineers visiting the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) are invited to attend the element14 LIVE event. »
Vote for your favorite development kit at element14
element14, an online collaborative community and technology store for electronic design engineers, is sponsoring a development kit poll and drawing for its U.S. users, now through May 31, 2010. »
Premier Farnell Americas joins electronics recycling initiative
Premier Farnell's businesses in the Americas, including Newark, element14, MCM, TPC Wire & Cable and Akron Brass, have joined the Basel Action Network's new e-Stewards Initiative, aimed at ensuring that electronics waste is responsibly recycled »
Newark boosts Maxim inventory for medical, industrial apps
Newark is now stocking Maxim Integrated Products' latest devices for same-day shipping at www.newark.com/maxim. A Maxim applications engineer is available to answer product questions and provide technical support at element14, a dedicated online technology portal for electronic design engineers. »
Leading distributors support engineering students
As element14, a new online technology resource for electronic design engineers from Premier Farnell plc, announces twelve Live EDGE Electronic Design for the Global Environment scholarships winners, Avnet Inc. says it will host the first virtual technology games competition for colleges students nationwide to earn scholarships. »
Engineers: Get a “roadtest” of new technologies from Freescale, Altera at element14
element14, a new online technology resource and community for electronic design engineers, has launched a RoadTest Group on its site that gives users the opportunity to trial and review the newest technologies from a variety of industry leading manufacturers. »
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 »