Arrow Electronics has announced two UK seminars that will give customers the opportunity to learn more about ultra-low-power microcontrollers and low-power RF technologies from Texas Instruments. All attendees at the seminars in Leicester and Reading will get to take away a free Texas Instruments development kit.

Arrow has received two new European awards from Infineon. The first recognises Arrow as the distributor that delivered the most significant growth of design-in activities across Europe. The second award goes to Arrow’s Nordic operation, which has been named as Infineon’s Best Distributor for the Nordic region.

Arrow has further enhanced its supply chain support in Europe by putting in place a European supply chain team and adding new supply chain services to its portfolio. Dedicated to identifying and addressing the supply chain requirements of customers throughout the region, the new team comprises supply chain professionals in northern, central and southern Europe. The team is the responsibility of Kristian Lading who was appointed as Arrow’s Europ...

Arrow has announced the appointment of Reino Suonsilta as managing director for the Nordic region. In his new role as managing director, Arrow Nordic, Suonsilta will have overall responsibility for Arrow’s operations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic countries.

Arrow has announced a new focus on integrated, system-level technologies with the creation of a dedicated, pan-European operation known as Advanced Embedded Solutions (AES). Designed to provide a European focus on platform-level technologies, AES covers integrated solutions including displays, industrial computer products, solid state storage and power supplies, as well as wireless modules for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. Operating sy...

Dave White has joined Arrow Electronics as field sales manager for the south of the UK. He will lead a team within Arrow Component Solutions working closely with nominated customers to deliver the full range of Arrow’s products and services.

Arrow and Atmel have teamed up to run an exclusive one-day workshop that will give engineers an insight into the latest technology developments in the field of highly integrated 32-bit microcontrollers featuring embedded Flash memory and advanced connectivity options. Places for the workshop are limited, and with attendees receiving free evaluation kits and significant discounts on additional kits, Arrow is expecting significant interest.

Eltek Valere, the specialist in energy systems for industrial and telecommunication applications, has confirmed Arrow as a strategic supplier of the electronic technologies used across its full range of telecom power products. Under the terms of its agreement with Eltek Valere, Arrow provides products and tailored supply chain support for the power specialist on a worldwide basis.

Arrow has announced an advanced, FPGA-based development platform that will dramatically speed the design, prototyping and testing of motor control applications. Created by Arrow’s European reference board team in conjunction with key suppliers and partners, the MotionFire platform provides all of the hardware, software and documentation needed to rapidly and cost-effectively implement motion control systems.

Arrow has launched a brochure that will prove an invaluable resource for engineers involved in the development of wireless control and machine-to-machine (M2M) applications, including the addition of wireless functionality to existing designs.

Arrow has launched a brochure that will prove an invaluable resource for engineers involved in the development of wireless control and machine-to-machine (M2M) applications, including the addition of wireless functionality to existing designs.

Arrow has received a prestigious distribution award from Microsoft following a year that saw significant growth in EMEA sales of Microsoft’s OED (original equipment design) products and the extension of the distribution agreement between the two companies to the UK and Ireland.

Following the recent signing of Arrow UK’s distribution agreement with Microsoft, twenty four of the company’s engineers and technical specialists in the UK have received intensive training on the sofware company’s operating systems and development tools. The training is designed to equip Arrow’s specialists with the skills they need to support customers in building embedded applications based around Microsoft Windows Embedded software i...

Arrow Northern Europe has played a key role in helping fitness technology specialist Newtest develop and manufacture a new device that monitors physical activity designed to lower ‘bad’ cholesterol levels. Recent studies have shown that appropriate aerobic physical activity has a key role to play in the reduction of LDL (or ‘bad’) cholesterol levels. Launched this month, the Newtest Cholesterol Exercise Monitor tracks and records a userâ...

Arrow Electronics has been appointed as ‘Master Distributor’ for Europe by power supply specialist Astrodyne Corporation. The deal will add a further 1800 product lines to Arrow’s existing power supply portfolio.

Now available from Arrow, the Everbouquet MF240320B32-BFW and MF320240B35-BF are new 3.2in and 3.5in active matrix TFT graphic LCDs. They join Everbouquet’s extensive range of display modules that also includes three models that include an integrated touch-screen with 3.5in, 4.3in or 5.7in display size. All of the new devices are transmissive type colour active matrix TFT LCD modules that use amorphous silicon technology, and include integrate...

Now available from Arrow, the Schurter USI 1206 is the industry's first IEC approved Universal Modular Fuse in a 1206 footprint. In addition to conformance to IEC 60127-4/2, the device bears international approvals by cURus, METI and CCC. The new fuse series has high melting I²t values, which provides greater withstand against inrush or pulse currents. In lower overcurrent conditions its opening time compares to 1206 time-delay types according t...

Arrow Electronics has once again outperformed other FCI Electronics distributors to win a distribution award from the interconnection specialist for the fourth year running. The FCI Electronics ‘Best Supporting Distributor’ award was presented in recognition of Arrow’s achievements in the Nordic countries and the Baltic States.

Cooper Bussmann has recognised the performance of Arrow Electronics in Northern Europe by bestowing its One Million Dollar Sales award on the distributor. The honour, which was presented during Arrow’s PEMCO Day in Copenhagen, was awarded for the 2006 sales period.

Arrow has launched a free catalogue that provides a single source of reference for engineers developing applications requiring displays, touch screens, embedded computing platforms and associated hardware and software.