Premier Farnell has added to its Agilent range of digital multimeters (DMM) with the next generation 6½ digit Truevolt. The DMM allows engineers to see their measurement data in new ways, get actionable information faster, and document their results more easily. The Truevolt technology reduces extraneous factors such as noise, injected current and input bias current for increased measurement confidence.

CadSoft Computer, a part of the Premier Farnell group has today announced that it is to partner with Würth Elektronik eiSos to offer an EAGLE PCB component library. The EAGLE WE eiSos library is available on www.cadsoft.de/libraries.

CadSoft Computer GmbH, a part of Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), today announces the launch of version 6 of its easy-to-use ‘EAGLE’ PCB software for professional board design. CadSoft EAGLE Version 6 is available to buy from today and focuses on flexibility and enabling users to save time by optimizing and integrating new features such as BGA escape routing, differential pair routing, automatic meanders and undo/redo logs. Additionally this la...

Premier Farnell plc announced that it has been accepted as a member of the European Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). The accolade provides recognition of the success of the company’s comprehensive sustainability strategy, its enhanced Trust Agenda, and the importance it places on environmental performance across its global operations.

Building upon the strong focus on the company’s Trust Agenda, Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), today announced its recent partnership with non-governmental organization (NGO) - the United Bank of Carbon (UBoC) - to support projects aimed at reducing de-forestation. The company is using innovative electronic design solutions to support the development of a sustainable rainforest reserve and local community in Tanzania, protecting an area of rainfo...

Premier Farnell plc has announced a worldwide stocking distribution agreement with SemiSouth Laboratories, Inc., the leading manufacturer of silicon carbide (SiC) diodes and transistor technology for high-power, high-efficiency, harsh-environment power management and conversion applications.

Premier Farnell plc has announced an agreement with Micriµm, a leading supplier of embedded RTOS solutions, to provide free evaluation access to the source code for Micriµm’s µC/OS-III Real-Time Kernel through the element14 knode, enabling electronic design engineers to quickly develop new products. The move is in line with the Group’s focus on providing engineering design solutions, driving business to the web and growing sales in emergin...

The new Specialist Technical Support team is connected globally to a vendor and manufacturer support network, providing one of the best customer support experiences in the electronic design engineering market. New suite of global services including 24-hour ‘Live Chat’ providing customers around the world with a direct knowledge link to Premier Farnell’s support engineers

Premier Farnell and Micriµm sign global distribution agreement enhancing element14’s ‘knode’ interactive design automation hub. Global agreement adds Micriµm’s suite of OS, RTOS and Middleware products to the element14 knode, all available at the click of a button

Following the successful launch of the element14 knode, an online design platform exclusively focused on the needs of electronic design engineers, element14 today announced a 2nd birthday gift giveaway to mark the second year anniversary of its online eCommunity. Until 31 July, all new members will be entered into a random draw to receive one of the 214 gifts.

Premier Farnell is first to stock Microchip and Digilent’s first chipKIT 32-bit microcontroller development platform. Microchip and Digilent recently launched the first 32-bit-microcontroller-based, open-source development platform that conforms to Arduino hardware and software. Designed and manufactured by Digilent, a Microchip Authorised Design Partner, the chipKIT platform is the first 32-bit solution in Arduino™ form-factor in the ind...

element14, a collaborative social community and electronics store for design engineers and electronics enthusiasts, and modding guru Benjamin J. Heckendorn, a.k.a. Ben Heck, help combat the spread of germs in hospital settings by modding a hand sanitizer dispenser into a motion detecting reminder system in the latest episode of “The Ben Heck Show.”

element14, a collaborative social community for design engineers and electronics enthusiasts, today announced that it will be the exclusive video partner of Technology Review’s EmTech 2011 and its lunch sponsor.

element14, a collaborative social community and electronics store for design engineers and electronics enthusiasts, today announced with Freescale Semiconductor, the addition of its latest innovation, the XL_STAR, an 8-Bit MCU based development environment, debugger and accelerometer demonstration board.

element14’s hackerspace challenge enables electronics community to follow and engage with participating teams leading up to competition culmination at Maker Faire in San Francisco Bay Area 2011

Premier Farnell plc announces CadSoft GmbH, a trading division of Premier Farnell, has partnered with Embest to jointly launch CadSoft’s EAGLE, the award winning software and the best selling Computer-aided Design (CAD) tool of its kind now available for use in the Chinese market. This global, tried and tested software will help Chinese engineers develop CADs using the latest technology, helping them to improve product designs, efficiency and ...

element14, a collaborative social community and electronics store for design engineers and electronics enthusiasts, and modding guru Benjamin J. Heckendorn, a.k.a. Ben Heck, debut a redesign of Ben’s portable workbench that offers the ultimate modding-on-the-road convenience in the newest episode of “The Ben Heck Show”.

element14, a collaborative global electronics community from Premier Farnell plc, is providing additional resources and guidance on its comprehensive legislation page to help manufacturers and design engineers to better understand the recent changes made in the Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive. An informative free RoHS eBook, which addresses the recent recast changes and live chat with global legislative e...

See Ben Heck Build a Instant Can Cooling Device and Continue his Pinball Machine project.

element14, a collaborative social community and electronics store for design engineers and electronics enthusiasts, today announced the addition of Jeremy Blum to its “Ask an Expert” panel, giving professionals, enthusiasts and DIY-ers alike a valuable resource for Arduino programming questions and topics.