Arrow Electronics has been named “Design-in and new business creation partner” in the Bourns distributor awards. The selection is based on data in various criteria, including the number of design opportunities uncovered, quantity of new customers and volume of new product design successes.

Arrow Electronics has strengthened its ability to provide embedded and subsystem solutions to UK customers by extending a distribution agreement with Microsoft. Under the terms of the new agreement, Arrow will offer customers in the UK and Ireland the full range of Windows Embedded software including Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and Windows XP Embedded, along with the Toolkits that accelerate product development; Platform Builder for Windows CE, and T...

Sonitor Technologies has confirmed Arrow as one of the company’s preferred supplier partners for electronic technologies deployed in the company’s latest ultrasound indoor positioning system (IPS). The relationship with Arrow covers the supply of components, technical engineering support and advanced supply chain solutions that support the global nature of Sonitor’s business.

Arrow has announced the availability of two new high quality LCD modules that will reduce power and design-in time in industrial and professional applications. The Everbouquet MF240320B24-BFW is a 2.4-inch transmissive TFT LCD unit offering the power saving advantages of 240mW white LED backlight, while the Everbouquet MC20E2D is a two-row dot matrix display designed for low power operation from a nominal 5V supply.

Arrow is now offering Harwin’s full range of PC/104 compatible bus connectors for embedded PC applications. Available in standard and press fit configurations, the connectors will suit a wide range of environments including test and measurement, medical and automotive equipment.

Arrow Electronics has signed an agreement to distribute connectBlue’s products and services in northern Europe. The deal covers the full range of connectBlue wireless products in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic countries, together with the UK and Ireland.

Arrow Electronics has regained TS16949 certification for the second year at its programming facility in Bedford, England and in its Dublin, Ireland sales office. This certification is so highly regarded that some customers and suppliers, automotive and non-automotive, now choose to waive their requirements for an annual audit of Arrow’s programming quality management system.

Sonitor Technologies, the specialist ultrasound IPS (indoor positioning system) designer and manufacturer has won this year’s ‘Vebjørn Tandberg Prize’.

C&D Technologies has presented Arrow UK with a Distributor of the Year award from the company’s Power Electronics Division. The Northern Europe Distributor of the Year award follows a year in which Arrow increased both design-ins and sales of C&D power technologies and related products in the UK and Ireland.

Arrow has expanded its support for ARM-based applications by creating a new development environment that allows engineers to easily and rapidly evaluate, prototype and test designs built around the STMicroelectronics STR710 ARM7 microcontroller.

Arrow Electronics has been appointed by Walsin Technology Corporation to distribute its range of passive components in northern Europe. The new agreement enables Arrow to supply Walsin products in the Nordic countries, Baltic states, UK and Ireland. Arrow already has a successful relationship with Walsin in central and southern Europe.

Arrow has announced the availability of a comprehensive suite of evaluation, development and debug products for engineers planning to use STMicroelectronics’ latest integrated ZigBee devices. The comprehensive support package will ease development, lower costs and speed time-to-market for low-bit-rate wireless networks based on the new STMicroelectronics SN250 system-on-chip ZigBee device or the SN260 ZigBee network processor.

Arrow has announced the availability of a comprehensive suite of evaluation, development and debug products for engineers planning to use STMicroelectronics’ latest integrated ZigBee devices. The comprehensive support package will ease development, lower costs and speed time-to-market for low-bit-rate wireless networks based on the new STMicroelectronics SN250 system-on-chip ZigBee device or the SN260 ZigBee network processor.

Telit wireless solutions has extended its agreement with Arrow to cover the UK and Ireland after continued, successful collaboration in Nordic and Baltic countries and southern Europe. Telit, a global wireless communications developer, designs and manufactures a range of GSM/GPRS- CDMA and UMTS/HSDPA based cellular communication products for the ‘machine-to-machine’ (M2M) market. Target applications for Telit’s products include automated m...

Arrow Northern Europe has announced it now offers industry-leading LED lighting components from Cree, Inc. Under terms of the worldwide agreement, Arrow Northern Europe is offering Cree’s XLamp products in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway and the Baltics.

Arrow has extended its EMI and RF filtering product portfolio with the addition of Yageo’s new SC series of multilayer capacitors in 1808 and 1812 case sizes certified to IEC384-14 / IEC60950 / EN 132400 for power and telecom applications. The main applications for the new Yageo devices are as X (line-to-line) or Y (line-to-ground) capacitors according to IEC definitions. All feature a dielectric withstand voltage of 1500VAC at 60Hz and all car...

Arrow Norway field sales executive Per-Arne Kristiansen has received the Outstanding Contribution Award from Altera Corp. in recognition of his 20 years of outstanding support. Per-Arne has been dedicated almost exclusively to the Altera product line since 1986.

Arrow Electronics has been awarded UK distribution rights for FRIWO Power Supplies, one of the world’s leading manufactures of low-voltage external power supplies and chargers for medical, IT, communications, domestic appliances, power tools and industrial applications.

Arrow is expanded its family of TFT (thin film transistor) and COG (chip on glass) displays with a new range of character and graphic modules targeted at portable applications and offering resolutions up to 240 x 320 pixels.

Tyco Electronics has chosen Arrow as its Danish Distributor of the Year for 2006. The award recognises Arrow Denmark’s high level of sales and its investments in support of the Tyco product line, which includes connectors, passives and electromechanical products.