Dates for a series of seminars presenting the latest technologies for advanced Human-Machine Interface (HMI) designs, including microcontrollers with multi-touch and voice-recognition capabilities and tools for rapid graphics display development, have been announced by Future Electronics.

Future Electronics has signed a worldwide franchise distribution agreement with Dublin-based Decawave, a manufacturer of low-cost, low-power indoor positioning ICs and modules. Under the agreement, which is effective immediately, Future Electronics is stocking production volumes of Decawave’s DW1000 wireless transceiver, an IEEE802.15.4-2011 Ultra-Wideband (UWB)-compliant device, and the DWM1000 module, which is based on the transceiver.

A programme of European ‘Wide Bandgap Technology’ seminars which will help design engineers to take advantage of the latest SiC and GaN components has been announced by Future Electronics. SiC (silicon carbide) and GaN (gallium nitride) wide bandgap semiconductor materials are attracting great interest from power engineers because of their superior thermal, switching and power-handling characteristics compared to silicon.

Details have been released by Future Electronics for a European series of technical seminars presenting new sensor and security technologies for Internet of Things (IoT) devices and guidance on ways to take advantage of cloud computing. This series of ‘Sensor to Cloud’ workshops is the latest activity in a Future Electronics programme to enhance the Intelligence of Things.

The newly founded Future Embedded Systems, a business unit of Future Electronics, demonstrated its serious intent to be a major player in the market arriving at Embedded Systems in Nuremberg brandishing a new supplier and showcasing a raft of demonstrations with its suppliers.

300 Intersil ‘Flower Power’ light-sensing reference design boards will be given away by distributor Future Electronics at Embedded World 2017 in Nuremberg ( March 14-16). The Flower Power reference design board will be demonstrated live at the show and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco Summer of Love.

Future Electronics has signed worldwide distribution agreements with Smartrac and Elatec which enable it to supply customers with a comprehensive choice of NFC, HF and UHF tag ICs and inlays, reader ICs and reader modules. Smartrac is a manufacturer of NFC, HF and UHF inlays. Inlays are tag labels which may be applied to almost any end product or package for data-rich, wireless identification. Germany-based Elatec supplies integrated, certified N...

A programme of ‘Tech Talks’ presentations by leading semiconductor manufacturers will be hosted on the Future Electronics stand at Embedded World in Nuremberg , (March 14-16, 2017). The presentations will shed light on some of the most pressing issues facing embedded system developers today, including security, connectivity and the Internet of Things.

Future Electronics has strengthened its position in the lighting sector by signing a distribution agreement covering EMEA with Flashnet, a provider of Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and smart city solutions. The agreement sees Future distributing Flashnet’s inteliLIGHT, a LoRaWAN-compatible smart street lighting solution. It is effective immediately.

OEM design engineers and engineering managers are being invited by Future Electronics to attend an ‘Industry 4.0’ seminar on February 22 2017 in Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The all-day seminar is intended for engineering professionals at companies working in the field of industrial and factory automation. It is also open to final-year engineering students.

A true “sensor to cloud” solution allowing users to more easily evaluate their product in the IoT world will be presented by Future Electronics at Embedded World in Nuremberg (March 14-16 2017). The Future Electronics IoT Solution Platform provides cloud storage, security and dashboard analytics designed to be an out of the box solution for fast and easy evaluation allowing embedded developers to tailor the cloud service to the specif...

Demonstrations of the latest security, cloud connectivity and power technologies for Industry 4.0 will be showcased by Future Electronics at electronica in Munich (November 8-11). The distributor’s stand will feature pods showing technologies grouped into three themes: Experience Security, Experience Power and Experience the Cloud.

A series of ‘Secure Wireless Sensor Node’ seminars across Europe in May and June is being organised by Future Electronics in conjunction with World IoT day. With the explosion in IoT edge nodes, from feeding information about the health of a patient to the health of a pot plant; the data collected and analysed can reveal valuable insights that allow for more pro-active and streamlined decisions and activities.

Future Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with semiconductor start-up Ambiq Micro. Founded in 2010, Ambiq Micro has developed breakthrough technology based on a patented Subthreshold Power Optimised Technology (SPOT) platform that reduces the amount of power consumed by semiconductors.

Cambridge CMOS Sensors has stepped onto a global distribution platform. It has signed a franchise agreement with Future Electronics that makes CCS’s compact, low-power gas sensors available to the mass market of industrial and consumer electronics OEMs served by Future Electronics globally.

Future Electronics will stage a series of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technical workshops run jointly with Cypress Semiconductor in February, March and April at various European venues. At the workshops, design engineers will have the opportunity to implement a sensor system with BLE connectivity based on Cypress’s PSoC 4 BLE programmable system-on-chip.

An Internet of Things demonstration will be the centrepiece of Future Electronics presence at electronica in Munich (Nov 11-14) The distributor has teamed up with Semtech and Microchip Technology, to deploy an ISM-band IoT network using LoRa technology, providing wireless connectivity across most of the Munich area with only a few gateways (base stations) during electronica week.

Future Electronics has added to the development boards on its FTM Board Club website. The latest offering is the capacitive sensing evaluation kit from Cypress Semiconductor now available free to design engineers.The CY3280-MBR3 CapSense MBR3 Evaluation Kit helps designers to evaluate the third generation of Cypress Semiconductor’s capacitive-sensing technology. It can be used to develop CapSense button designs, and to implement proximity s...

Future Electronics is making the new range of STM32 Nucleo prototyping boards from STMicroelectronics available free via its FTM Board Club website for design engineers. The Nucleo boards are compatible with ARM’s mbed application development platform. They also include ST Morpho extension headers to allow access to all of the microcontroller’s on-chip peripherals, and Arduino headers which accept shields from the extensive Arduino ec...

Selecting a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) begins with an appreciation of its benefits, fundamental features and basic taxonomy; the cost incurred even when selecting a no-cost option. Daniel Stegeran, Technical Solutions Manager for Future Electronics (Romania), discusses in detail in this article from ES Design magazine.