Solid State Supplies has won a UK and Ireland franchise with Quectel Wireless Solutions, a Chinese manufacturer of wireless communications modules for M2M applications. The modules, which cover 2G, 2.5G and 3G wireless standards, are competitively priced, starting at under £10 each for data-only GSM versions.

Solid State Supplies has won a UK and Ireland franchise with Quectel Wireless Solutions, a Chinese manufacturer of wireless communications modules for M2M applications. The modules, which cover 2G, 2.5G and 3G wireless standards, are competitively priced, starting at under £10 each for data-only GSM versions. Founded by Patric Qian, formerly of Simcom, Alcatel and Motorola, Quectel has focused on delivering high quality cellular modules to major...

Solid State Supplies has announced a low-cost baseband processor that combines analogue and digital PMR processing in a single chip. The CMX8341 is designed for license-free digital PMR (dPMR) radios and implements a half-duplex dPMR air interface together with physical, data link and control layers, an embedded low bit-rate vocoder that requires no licence or royalties, and a soft-decision 4FSK modem. Its high level of functional integration, sm...

Solid State Supplies has introduced a 24-die, 400nm wavelength, ultra-violet LED emitter with industry-leading radiant flux of 30 W/cm2. Manufactured by LEDEngin and rated at 90 Watts, the LZP-00UA00 comes in a 12.0mm x 12.0mm x 6.7mm surface mount ceramic package with integrated glass lens. The package features exceptionally low thermal resistance of 0.6°C/W, ensuring effective heat dissipation and long service life.

Solid State Supplies has introduced a 24-die, 400nm wavelength, ultra-violet LED emitter with industry-leading radiant flux of 30 W/cm2. Manufactured by LEDEngin and rated at 90 Watts, the LZP-00UA00 comes in a 12.0mm x 12.0mm x 6.7mm surface mount ceramic package with integrated glass lens. The package features exceptionally low thermal resistance of 0.6°C/W, ensuring effective heat dissipation and long service life.

Solid State Supplies has appointed Ian Siddall as applications group manager to extend its technical support capabilities following a year of exceptionally strong growth. Siddall joins the distributor from Vitesse Semiconductor where he was a European field applications engineer. He will initially take responsibility for the CML and Digi franchises but also play a wider product marketing role in identifying future products and technologies to mee...

Solid State Supplies is now stocking CMX7131 and CMX7141 baseband processors for public mobile radio (PMR) applications. The devices, which are designed for minimal power consumption, extend battery life in hand-held radios and can be used to create dual-mode transceivers for digital (dPMR) and analogue communications.

Solid State Supplies has signed a franchise agreement with specialist materials company, W.L. Gore & Associates, to distribute its EMI shielding products in the UK. The product range includes adhesive-backed EMI gaskets for shielding at frequencies up to 40 GHz, lightweight multi-cavity board-level shielding for mobile communications devices, and grounding pads in a variety of electrically conductive materials. The products are compatible with bo...

The CMX148 PMR audio and data processor from CML Microsystems is now available exclusively in the UK from Solid State Supplies. The low power half-duplex audio, signalling and data processing IC provides maximum support to systems where the sub-audio signalling is managed within the microcontroller. The device features flexible power saving modes and its comprehensive audio processing facilities include complete audio-band processing, filtering, ...

Three new series of high efficiency antennas for M2M applications from leading antenna supplier Pulse are now available from Solid State Supplies. These latest products to be added to Pulse's range include the W1900 series of stubby antennas, the W1920 series of blade antennas and the W3538 series of standalone PCB antennas for internal use. All the antennas offer high efficiency, small form factor, penta-band operation for M2M access to global c...

Three new series of high efficiency antennas for M2M applications from leading antenna supplier Pulse are now available from Solid State Supplies. These latest products to be added to Pulse's range include the W1900 series of stubby antennas, the W1920 series of blade antennas and the W3538 series of standalone PCB antennas for internal use. All the antennas offer high efficiency, small form factor, penta-band operation for M2M access to global c...

Solid State Supplies has named John Macmichael Managing Director. Previously Commercial Director of the company, Macmichael has more than 30 years' experience in the electronics industry, having worked in engineering, sales and distribution in both the UK and the US. Macmichael was previously Commercial Director with Solid State Supplies. Former Managing Director Gary Marsh becomes Chief Executive Officer and will now focus on the corporate devel...

Solid State Supplies now offers Digi's m10 satellite modem, providing worldwide satellite data transmit and receive capabilities for a wide variety of asset-tracking and industrial remote communication applications. Operating on the ORBCOMM low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite network, it is designed to enable Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication with virtually unlimited global coverage and no blockage.

Available from Solid State Supplies, Sanken's highly integrated inverter power modules for motor control help reduce external components. The SCM1110MF inverter power module (IPM) consists of all of the necessary power elements needed to configure the main circuit of an inverter as a high-side drive power supply: six IGBTs, three pre-drive ICs and six flyback diodes, as well as a bootstrap circuit (three bootstrap diodes and three boot resistors)...

Now available from Solid State Supplies is the Enfora GSM1308 SA-G+ compact standalone IP modem with full GSM/GPRS/EDGE voice and data features. The SA-G+ is a certified quad-band integrated platform that enables simple integration through a serial or USB connection. For a limited time, the GSM108 SA-G+ is shipping from Solid State Supplies with a trial SIM card from Wireless Logic, allowing users to test their applications without the need to fi...

Solid State Supplies has announced the W4000 series of GPS active antennas from Pulse. These oval-shaped antennas offer high performance and versatility in installation and are the thinnest on the market with a profile of only 5.45 mm. Designed for in-vehicle mounting, each antenna can be positioned on the dashboard or window without concerns about orientation.

Solid State Supplies has announced the W4000 series of GPS active antennas from Pulse. These oval-shaped antennas offer high performance and versatility in installation and are the thinnest on the market with a profile of only 5.45 mm. Designed for in-vehicle mounting, each antenna can be positioned on the dashboard or window without concerns about orientation.

Solid State Supplies has signed a distribution agreement with Energy Micro, supplier of the world's lowest power microcontrollers. Solid State Supplies will distribute Energy Micro's EFM32 microcontrollers in the UK from September 1st. The EFM32 is the first 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 product that addresses the low power mixed-signal microcontroller market and is ideal for ultra-low power and battery operated applications.

Solid State Supplies offers the RCM5600W WiFi networking module from Rabbit. The module is part of Rabbit's MiniCore series of ultra-compact, low profile networking modules and is optimised for real-time control, communications and networking applications such as energy management and intelligent building automation. It offers designers the flexibility to easily place wireless network connectivity anywhere on their design.

Solid State Supplies offers the RCM5600W WiFi networking module from Rabbit. The module is part of Rabbit's MiniCore series of ultra-compact, low profile networking modules and is optimised for real-time control, communications and networking applications such as energy management and intelligent building automation. It offers designers the flexibility to easily place wireless network connectivity anywhere on their design.