Arrow Electronics is offering a low-cost USB disk demonstration board that allows embedded systems designers to quickly and easily evaluate the latest high-performance µPSD3400 Turbo Plus series of 8-bit microcontroller from STMicroelectronics. Designed for direct connection to a PC USB interface, the DK3420 demonstration board effectively emulates a small USB flash disk based around a µPSD3400 Turbo Plus device.

Arrow UK and Toshiba Electronics have teamed up to create a one-day engineering seminar covering 8- and 16-bit Flash-based microcontroller technologies. In addition to finding out about the latest technologies, all attendees at the ‘hands-on’ technical training workshop will also get to take away a Toshiba MCU development platform free of charge.

Arrow is now offering NKK Nikkai’s UB2 series of low-profile, illuminated pushbutton switches, with enhanced features and expanded aesthetic and functional options. These provide engineers with an exceptional choice to replace standard, outdated, split-legend caps.

Radionor Communications, the wireless networking specialist has established an alliance with Arrow in which the company supplies and provides engineering support for key technologies deployed in Radionor’s latest broadband radio products.

Arrow is now offering the M series of miniature toggle-actuated switches from NKK Nikkai, providing engineers with thousands of combinations and enabling specification of the correct miniature toggle switch for any application.

Arrow Electronics has been named by NEC Electronics as its leading S/LSI design win distributor in Europe, based on the company’s demand creation activities. Arrow achieved the highest number of design wins and greatest overall lifetime value of business generated within NEC’s European distribution network during the period from April 2004 to April 2006.

The Sharp Microelectronics ‘SMALL’ family of TFT LCD modules, available from Arrow, offers one of the widest ranges of QVGA products from a single manufacturer. Arrow is now offering the latest 3.5-inch and 3.8-inch modules from this family, including models that combine reflective LCD and backlit transmissive LCD technology in a single module.

What is said to be the industry's first series of ARM9-based general-purpose micros with internal flash memory, the STR91X family from STMicroelectronics, is now available through Arrow. The devices combine a 16/32-bit ARM966ES RISC processor core, dual-bank flash memory, large SRAM for data or code, and a rich peripheral set

Freescale Semiconductor has presented Arrow Electronics with its ‘Demand Creation Distributor of the Year Award’ for the UK and Ireland. The award is in recognition of the business that the company has generated as a result of providing technical design-in support on Freescale technologies for customers in the region.

Arrow partnership and Kontron embedded computing technology key to rapid development and global deployment of advanced monitoring and measurement architectures