Nu Horizons Electronics announces the PI7C9X110, PCI Express (PCIe) to PCI reversible bridge from Pericom. The chip can be configured for forward or reverse bridging operation. Comprising one PCI Express port and one 32-bit/66 MHz PCI port, the P7C9X110 connects legacy PCI products to PCIe systems, or PCIe products to legacy PCI systems.

Nu Horizons Electronics has expanded its UK and Ireland distribution agreement with N2Power, a Qualstar Company, to become a worldwide distributor for the entire product line of XL-Series AC-DC power supplies. N2Power’s XL125, XL160 and XL250 Series AC-DC power supplies are said by the company to produce more power in less space, freeing up system real estate.

Nu Horizons Electronics announce the initial models of the XL275 Series from N2 Power, a family of very compact, 275-watt ac-dc power supplies that features digital power management and optional PMBus-capability. The XL275 Series delivers 275 Watts from a 96 sq.cm (15 sq. in.) footprint. Very low profile packaging yields 12.22 Watts per cubic inch power density. The XL275 family is expressly designed for OEM applications such as industrial automa...

Now in its 18th year, the Quantel Supplier of the Year Award has gained recognition as one of the industry’s toughest challenges. The scheme measures all Quantel’s suppliers against a wide range of criteria from on-time delivery, accuracy of delivered goods, supply chain administration and paperwork. Once again, Nu Horizons (which was known as DT Electronics until April 1, 2007) has come out top of the pile with a stunning 99.8% performance t...

Nu Horizons Electronics has signed a UK franchise deal with Rochester Electronics that gives the company access to 1.5 billion discontinued semiconductor devices, 8 billion silicon die for such devices and fabrication services for aftermarket parts. All parts and wafers are sourced directly from manufacturers’ factories with complete traceability and, where appropriate, military certifications. Where ready-made parts are not available, Rocheste...

Nu Horizons announces availability of the AVR32 UC3A, the first microcontroller based on Atmel’s new AVR32 UC core. Delivering 80 Dhrystone MIPS performance while consuming just 40mA from a 3.3V supply at 66MHz clock speed, the devices feature up to 512KB Flash and 64KB RAM, an Ethernet MAC, a USB OTG controller and External Bus Interface (EBI), all of which minimise external component count. The EBI enables easy interfacing to external SRAM an...

Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. (NASDAQ:NUHC), a leading global distributor of advanced technology semiconductor, display, illumination and system solutions, today announced its acquisition of Dacom-Süd Electronic Vertriebs GmbH, a franchised electronic component distributor, based in Munich, Germany.

Nu Horizons Electronics has named Geoff Rose as Director EMS Europe. With responsibility for Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) customers, he reports directly to Dave Bowers, President of Nu Horizons Electronics Distribution Division. Rose was previously Business Development Director for Nu Horizons Electronics in the UK, where he reported to managing director, Tony Frere.

Nu Horizons is now stocking the AT91SAM7S, SAM7X and SAM7XC processors from Atmel. These ARM7TDMI processors are now available with 512Kbytes of Flash memory, double the previous capacity. This means that software engineers can integrate new features through in-application programming. The price premium for this doubled capacity is less than 20%.

Nu Horizons Electronics and Microsemi Corporation have entered an agreement by which Nu Horizons becomes a globally authorized distributor of Microsemi’s analog and mixed-signal products. These products include controller integrated circuits, ambient light sensors and LCD backlight inverters. Microsemi differentiates its integrated circuit products with patented topologies that provide superior performance and unique functional capabilities. T...

Nu Horizons Electronics, a global distributor with annual sales of over $700 million, has announced its entry into the German market, effective from May 1, 2007. The company sees an opportunity for a focused, design-led distributor to fulfil a market need created by various mergers, acquisitions and company closures amongst electronic component distributors in the last two years. The office will be located in Munich and the German company, Nu Hor...

Tim Baldwin has joined Nu Horizons Electronics as product manager for the distributor’s Xillinx FPGA franchise. Baldwin was previously Northern Regional Sales Manager for Vitesse Semiconductor and brings a wealth of experience in Xilinx products and technologies.

Available from Nu Horizons, Atmel’s latest 8-bit AVR micros, dubbed the AT90USB82 and AT90USB162 feature a 12 Mbits/s controller and 8 or 16 Kbytes of memory respectively. The memory can be programmed in-system directly through the USB interface and on-chip EEPROM of 512 bytes enables parameters to be set without interference to the application. This simplifies manufacturing, cuts costs and reduces equipment size because the programme can be lo...

DT Electronics is to distribute a comprehensive range of components and modules for low-cost, industrial wireless networks as a result of landing the UK franchise for RF Monolithics of Dallas, Texas. With 25 years in low power sensor networks and high performance RF components, RF Monolithics acquired Cirronet and Aleier in September 2006, enabling the company to supply a complete family of end-to-end industrial wireless sensors, including Zigbee...

DT Electronics has announced its forthcoming Xpress Track seminar schedule on Atmel’s ARM7 family of microcontrollers. The day-long workshop will provide an introduction to the ARM7 and ARM9 devices and has been tailored for engineers currently considering moving to a 32-bit architecture.

Xilinx’s latest high performance field programmable gate array (FPGA) Virtex-5 LX, is now available from DT Electronics. Built on Xilinx’s ExpressFabric architecture, the V5LX allows designs to be packed in 45% less area, operate with up to 30% performance improvement and 35% dynamic power reduction. Each platform within the Virtex-5 family has been optimised to offer a balance of high-performance logic, serial connectivity, signal and embedd...

DT Electronics has announced availability of SMSC’s 4-Port USB2.0 switching hub controller, multiswitch hub USB2524. Considered an industry first, the USB2524 provides the ability to share attached USB peripheral devices between two USB hosts. The USB2524 does away with the disruption of swapping cumbersome cables or costly networking alternatives. For example, the USB2524 can share a direct-print photo printer between both a digital camera an...

DT Electronics' forthcoming Xpress Track seminars on the Virtex-5 family will be run in a workshop format using evaluation boards populated with the 5VLX50-10FF676CES device. Engineers and designers will learn how to evaluate the new features of the Virtex-5 family and compare these against the earlier Virtex-4 platform.

Available from DT Electronics, SMSC’s LAN9218 is a full-featured, single-chip 10/100 Ethernet controller that uses HP’s Auto-MDIX technology. HP Auto-MDIX eliminates the confusion associated with device pin assignments, the need to add a manual MDIX switch or use cross-over cables. The LAN9128 is driver-, register- and footprint –compatible with the previous generation of LAN9118 devices. Designed for embedded applications where performance...

DT Electronics is now stocking Xilinx Spartan-3E Starter Kits. Each kit is a complete development board including power supply, evaluation software, resource CD containing comprehensive technical data, and a USB cable. The kits support the Xilinx Spartan-3E and CoolRunner-II families of devices. They have an on-board 50MHz crystal clock oscillator, 128Mb parallel flash, 16Mb SPI flash and 64MB of DDR SRAM.