Avnet Abacus is introducing the IP67 and IP68-rated Deltron 480 and 483 series of aluminium enclosures manufactured by DEM Manufacturing, a division of the UK-based Alpha 3 Manufacturing Limited. Designed for the most demanding electrical and environmental conditions in marine, industrial, food preparation, transportation, leisure, military and aerospace, the enclosures can optionally feature EMI/RFI protection. All are certified to BS EN 60529:...

Avnet Memec will be demonstrating its portfolio of key technologies on booth C76 at the Metering, Billing/CRM Europe 2011 event in Amsterdam 4th – 6th October. Suppliers including, Cirrus Logic, Echelon Energy Micro, Intersil and Silicon Labs will highlight technologies for smart, gas, water and heat meters alongside lowest power wireless MCU and long range communications devices.

Avnet Memec will be demonstrating its portfolio of key technologies on booth C76 at the Metering, Billing/CRM Europe 2011 event in Amsterdam 4th – 6th October. Suppliers including, Cirrus Logic, Echelon Energy Micro, Intersil and Silicon Labs will highlight technologies for smart, gas, water and heat meters alongside lowest power wireless MCU and long range communications devices.

A review of best practice in developing efficient power supply solutions for solid state lighting by Cor van Dam Marketing Director – Power Avnet Abacus

Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading power, interconnect, passive, and electromechanical distributors is teaming up with some of the world’s leading manufacturers of power components to deliver a series of free technical seminars in five locations across Europe focused on the difficult challenges that face power system design engineers.

Avnet Memec announced today the expansion of its pan-European distribution agreement with Renesas Electronics Europe to include industrial automation products such as IO Link, ERTEC and Ethernet Controllers & PHYs supporting IEEE1588 v2.

Avnet Memec has announced that it has expanded its component distribution agreement with Microsemi Corporation, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance. Avnet Memec will sell and support Microsemi’s full range of power, RF, analogue and mixed-signal devices throughout all European territories

Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electromechanical and power distributors, has signed a Pan-European distribution agreement with Cymbet Corporation, the leader in solid-state energy storage solutions for microelectronic systems, to distribute Cymbet’s complete range of rechargeable solid state batteries, power management devices, and evaluation kits. This will include Cymbet’s EnerChip solid state batteries (SSB)...

Avnet Abacus has been appointed as the first and currently only pan-European distributor for the full range of CellPac lithium batteries from VARTA Microbattery, including custom-designed as well as standard battery packs.

Avnet Abacus is bringing its portfolio of power technologies together online with the launch of the Avnet Abacus Power microsite. Engineers developing and designing new power projects will have direct access to a comprehensive array of power based solutions.

The new MachXO2 PLD family from Lattice offers designers of low-density PLDs an unprecedented mix of low cost, low power and high system integration in a single device. Built on a low power 65-nm process featuring embedded Flash technology, the MachXO2 family delivers a 3X increase in logic density, a 10X increase in embedded memory, more than a 100X reduction in static power and up to 30% lower cost compared to the MachXO™ PLD family. In a...

Avnet Memec has confirmed a new pan-European distribution agreement with Renesas Electronics, following the merger between Renesas Technology Corporation and NEC Electronics. The agreement makes Avnet Memec a key distribution partner for the entire portfolio of Renesas microcontrollers and system-on-chip, analogue and power products throughout the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

Power Integrations, a leading supplier of analogue power conversion and management integrated circuits, and specialist technical distributor Avnet Abacus are hosting two UK technical design seminars. The seminars will enable attendees to learn how to design and implement cost effective LED driver circuits using the latest IC technology from Power Integrations.

Avnet Memec is using the 2010 Electronica exhibition to celebrate five years in the industry, by introducing a range of new products from its specialist semiconductor franchises. Displays on the company’s stand Hall 5/476 include the world debut of a motor control board from key franchise Actel, MCUs from recently-signed Energy Micro, and analogue devices from its new Intersil linecard.

Avnet Embedded, an Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) company, is bringing its Embedded Technical Seminar to Brussels after its success in The Netherlands. In partnership with Silica, Avnet Embedded will also be joined by Alten PTS, Alten Belgium, Intel and Windows® Embedded for the one-day free of charge seminar for embedded developers being held on 21st September 2010 at the Business Faculty in Brussels.

Avnet Embedded today announced that its franchise agreement with Sharp Microelectronics Europe for display products has been extended to cover the UK. Commenting, Martin Brooks, vice president, Avnet Embedded, said, “Our new agreement with Sharp gives our customers access to their huge range of high quality TFT panels covering the wide spectrum of applications that exist in the UK.

Avnet Embedded, Europe’s leading distributor of Microsoft’s Embedded Operating Systems and Direct Insight, an official Windows Embedded Training Partner and Windows Embedded Gold Partner, are partnering to provide a compelling half day seminar for embedded developers entitled “The power of Windows 7 in an Embedded Device”. With Microsoft's forthcoming release, the Windows 7 user experience will be available to the embedded...

Avnet Memec, today announced a series of free, hands-on SmartFusion engineering workshops in partnership with Actel in the UK. The new SmartFusion product family from Actel is the world’s first intelligent mixed-signal FPGA to integrate an ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analogue.

Avnet Abacus, in conjunction with Avnet Embedded, is running a FREE seminar looking at the newest trends in embedded technology featuring display, wireless and embedded computing specialisations. The seminar will be held in Berlin on 16th March.

Avnet Memec, the specialised semiconductor distributor of Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA, has collaborated with Ka-Ro and kernel concepts to produce and distribute WarpComm, a Marvell MPU Single-Board Computer based development platform with a flexible Linux operating system and accompanying ‘µCross’ tool chain.