Wilmington, Mass. – Heilind Electronics, a leading global distributor of electronic components, has added USB Type-C shielded I/O connectors and cable assemblies to its extensive selection of Molex products. The more compact design of the Type-C connector offers greater PCB savings, while allowing high-frequency mating in data, consumer, automotive, and industrial I/O applications. Molex USB Type-C connectors…
DetailsChicago, Ill. – element14, the world’s largest electronic design community, launches today its 2016 Pi IoT Smarter Spaces Design Challenge featuring the new Bluetooth and wireless enabled Raspberry Pi 3 microcomputer. The Pi IoT Smarter Spaces competition is challenging members to invent IoT-powered solutions that allow users to control the multiple Internet-enabled devices in any environment – be it their…
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VI continue to get questions on a near-daily basis asking whether one specific EU RoHS exemption or another has been renewed or will be expiring on July 21, 2016. Today it was 7(c)-1. One exemption that will expire on July 21, 2016 that some electronics manufacturers need to be aware of is 7(b): Lead in…
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I recently had a conversation with Wade McDaniel, vice president of supply chain solutions for Avnet Velocity. The discussion was centered on the many layers of risk management, and a few things stood out from a presentation McDaniel provided. It was a map of earthquake-prone areas of the world. The image stands out in my…
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Apple Inc. is a formidable company but its role as a trendsetter may be coming to an end. Electronic hardware propelled the company to the top of the global consumer electronics market and will continue to be its major sales generator. However, hardware and software intersected years ago and one has triumphed over the other;…
DetailsMouser Electronics, Inc. today announced a global distribution agreement with Alorium Technology, producers of the XLR8 development board. XLR8 integrates an ATmega328-compatible microcontroller core and custom accelerator blocks on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), allowing developers to capitalize on the ease-of-use of the Arduino ecosystem with the hardware acceleration of an FPGA. Alorium Technology’s XLR8 development board, now available to…
DetailsThief River Falls, Minn. — Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Electronics, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, today announced they are distributing select products from Excelitas Technologies® Corp .broad portfolio of illumination, optoelectronic, and sensor/detection products worldwide through Digi-Key’s global websites. Excelitas is a global technology leader focused on delivering innovative high-performance, market-driving photonic solutions…
DetailsAndover, Mass. – MEMSIC Inc., (http://www.memsic.com) a leading sensing solutions provider, today announced the availability of a new whitepaper for heavy equipment design engineers and developers who need to pick the right kind of acceleration sensors. This new MEMSIC whitepaper discusses various uses for accelerometers used in construction, testing and transportation equipment. This whitepaper provides…
DetailsSanta Monica, Calif. – Master Electronics, a leading global distributor of electromechanical, interconnect and passive components, announces their newest supplier, Teledyne LeCroy. “Teledyne LeCroy is a leader in the field of test & measurement and we will offer our customers first class products to measure, analyze, and verify electronic devices of all types,” said Riad…
DetailsWeston, Fla. – Micrium, the premier real-time operating system (RTOS) provider for embedded systems and the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that Infineon Technologies has licensed the company’s µC/Probe™ data visualization tool. Infineon will ship the µC/Probe at no cost to customers of its XMC™ family of microcontrollers based on ARM® Cortex®-M cores. “The XMC family is…
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