Nu Horizons Electronics has announced the expansion of its five-year North American and two-year Asia Pacific partnership agreement with Linear Technology Corporation into the European region. Effective immediately, Nu Horizons will distribute Linear Technology's complete line of high-performance analog integrated circuits in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Pericom Semiconductor’s PI3HDMI411AD active-drive DVI/HDMI switch is now available from Nu Horizons Electronics. The device uses advanced pre-emphasis and de-emphasis techniques, with configurable pre-emphasis levels of 0, 1.5, 3.5 and 6.0dB.

Following the global franchise agreement last April, Nu Horizons Electronics has completed the European rollout of its ON Semiconductor franchise. The franchise agreement covers ON Semiconductor’s existing portfolio of leading-edge power semiconductor solutions, which are now available in all European countries though Nu Horizons’ offices in Coventry, UK, and Munich, Germany.

Nu Horizons Electronics has announced availability of the LAN9218i from SMSC. This single-chip 10/100 Ethernet controller is designed for high performance embedded applications. Packet loss is reduced or eliminated through the use of 16KByte of internal SRAM that can hold over 200 received packets. If the receive FIFO gets too full, the device automatically generates flow control packets to the remote node, or asserts back-pressure on the remote ...

Mark Ogden, a field applications engineer with Nu Horizons Electronics (UK), has beaten some 50 competitors to be honoured with an “Outstanding Contribution (EMEA)” award from programmable logic company, Xilinx. The award was presented at a Xilinx sales meeting in Newbury, Berkshire, earlier this month.

Astec/Artesyn’s LPT50 series of triple-output, universal input 50W switching power supplies is now available from Nu Horizons Electronics. The devices have a compact 2 by 4” (50.8 by 101.6mm) footprint and are less than 1U high, achieving a typical efficiency of 80% at full load.

Now available from Nu Horizons Electronics, Astec/Artesyn’s SMT12F series is a new range of ultra-compact non-isolated point-of-load converters for space-critical applications. Devices in the new SMT12F Typhoon family of surface-mount converters have a footprint of just 13.5 by 16mm and require only five 22 microFarad ceramic output capacitors to realise a complete point-of-load (POL) solution.

Nu Horizons Electronics Corp and Exar Corporation has announced the expansion to their existing distribution agreement to include worldwide franchised rights for Exar’s full line of Communications, Interface and Power products, including the recently acquired Sipex portfolio of Power Management, LED Backlighting and Interface devices.

Nu Horizons Electronics has announced the availability of Winbond’s ISD1700 ChipCorders. This family of single-chip multi-message voice record and playback devices features a proprietary message management system that allows the chip to self-manage address locations for multiple messages. This unique feature provides sophisticated messaging flexibility in a simple, push-button environment.

Nu Horizons Electronics has extended its long-standing franchise agreement with Murata Power Solutions (previously known as C&D Technologies) to the European market. The distributor previously held the franchise in North America and Asia. The deal will add DC/DC converters rated from 0.25W to 300W and AC/DC power supplies from 200W to 2kW to the Nu Horizons power offering. Initial design-in activity will focus on point-of-load (POL) converters f...

Nu Horizons Electronics has won a European franchise for ISSI, a manufacturer of high speed, low power SRAM, medium density DRAM memory and low density E2PROMs. The deal is an extension of an existing franchise held by Nu Horizons in North America and Asia. ISSI is one of a handful of companies still investing in SRAM technologies. Recent developments include 4Mb 5V family of asynchronous SRAM, 36Mb, quad data rate (QDR) devices, and 72Mb version...

Nu Horizons Electronics has announced ex-stock availability of the Exar XR20V2170 (single-channel) and XR20V2172 (dual-channel) universal asynchronous receivers and transmitters (UARTs) with integral I2C/SPI interface and RS232 transceivers. The devices reduce bill of materials, component count and cost when connecting microcontroller-based systems to the outside world via RS232 links. The I2C or SPI interface is software selectable and the RS232...

Nu Horizons Electronics has promoted Gerry Hewitt (47) to Director of Marketing EMEA. Hewitt was previously UK Marketing Director with the company. Based in Coventry, he now takes responsibility for product marketing, inventory management and marketing communications throughout Nu Horizons’ EMEA operations. Hewitt reports to Dave Bowers, President of Nu Horizons’ Distribution Division and acting President of Nu Horizons EMEA, who is based at ...

Nu Horizons Electronics has appointed Phil Gee as VP Sales Europe, effective October 1st. Gee, who was previously European Director Global EMS at Future Electronics, takes responsibility for the distributor’s sales operations in the UK, Germany and Austria. Nu Horizons entered the European market in August 2006 with the acquisition of Coventry based DT Electronics and opened sales offices in Munich and Vienna earlier this year.

With a continued focus on global expansion to meet the growing demand for high-performance optical, analog and mixed signal solutions, Gennum Corporation today announced it has broadened its distribution agreement with Nu Horizons Electronics Corp.

Nu Horizons Electronics announces availability of the OKI ML8953, a low-profile, MEMS 3D accelerometer that detects static and dynamic acceleration on three orthogonal axes. Designed for use in motion-sensitive mobile devices, security and gaiming applications, it features an internal microcontroller with embedded Flash ROM. Its detection range is -3g to +3g and the device offers a sensitivity of 10mg/bit for acceleration and 0.5 degrees C per bi...

Nu Horizons Electronics has announced the European launch of its recent global distribution agreement with Emerson Network Power. Nu Horizons is a globally authorized distributor of Astec and Artesyn branded standard and custom AC-DC and DC-DC power conversion products. The products are now available through Nu Horizons’ UK, German and Austrian offices.

Nu Horizons Electronics has introduced the SMSC USB331x family of integrated, high speed, USB 2.0 transceiver (PHY). The devices eliminate the need for external USB switches and ESD protection devices, cutting component count, circuit complexity and cost. The transceivers act as a single port of connection for high-speed data transfer, battery charging and audio accessories, enabling greater design flexibility. They are aimed at consumer electron...

Nu Horizons Electronics has ex-stock availability of the SynQor IQ18xxxQTAxx family of 40A /100W DC/DC converters. With a 4:1 input range from 9-36V, inventory is minimized because the converters are equally suited to use on 12V or 24V input systems. There are nine different models with single outputs ranging from 1.8V to 48V and all come in an industry-standard 2.3 x 1.45in (quarter brick) package with standard pin-out.

Nu Horizons Electronics has continued its European expansion with the appointment of Herbert Maierhofer (44) as sales manager for Austria. Mr. Maierhofer, who is based in Vienna, reports to Thomas Reisinger, Managing Director at Nu Horizons Electronics GmbH in Munich. US-based Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. entered the European market with the acquisition of DT Electronics in the UK in August last year. Nu Electronics GmbH opened its Munich office...