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
Avnet, TI, Xilinx launch Analog eLab Videocast
Avnet, TI and Xilinx have launched a new Analog eLab videocast series that demos TI's digital power technology in Xilinx FPGA-based designs. »
Quad power management supervisors feature programmable delay, watchdog timer
TI intros a new family of quad supply voltage supervisors (SVSs) with programmable delay and watchdog timer, which minimize board space in multi-rail power-supply designs. »
National Semi’s WEBENCH tool enables real-time comparison of power solutions
National Semiconductor Corp. has introduced WEBENCH Visualizer, a comparison and selection tool that enables engineers to rapidly select an optimal power system design. It also creates a graphical snapshot of options across multiple criteria, such as power efficiency, footprint and system bill of materials (BOM) cost. »
TTI launches power management webcast series
TTI, Inc., a global distributor of passive, connector, electromechanical, and discrete components, has released two Power Management Webcasts in the wake of its Power Management Resource Center launch last month. »
Power Integrations launches online courses for power-supply design engineers
Power Integrations has launched PI University, an online technical learning center featuring practical instructional videos that deliver a complete how-to tutorial in power-supply circuit design. »
Cypress claims industry’s first 65-nm 144-Mbit SRAMs
Cypress expands its 65-nm SRAM family with the introduction of the industry's first monolithic SRAMs at 144-Mbit densities. These devices feature the market's fastest available clock speed of 550 MHz and a total data rate of up to 80 Gbits/s, while consuming half the power of 90-nm SRAMs. »
Digital power market readies for growth
Global sales of digital power semiconductors are set to increase to $821 million in 2013, up from $127 million in 2008, according to the latest research from iSuppli. »
TTI launches Power Management Resource Center
TTI, Inc., a global distributor of passive, connector, electromechanical and discrete components, has launched its new Power Management Resource Center, targeted as a one-stop power management resource for engineers. »
Newark releases 2010 components catalog
Newark, part of the global Premier Farnell Group, has released its new Catalog 127. The 2010 catalog offers 150,000 electronic products from 440+ top suppliers that support a wide range of board-level, bench and industrial applications. »
Power supply design keeps LCD monitor standby to <80 mW
Power Integrations has released a Design Engineering Report (DER-229) that details the design of a 27-watt power supply for LCD monitors and similar applications. »
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 »