Arrow Electronics and the non-profit organisations Close the Gap and Hoops of Hope collaborate to turn used cargo containers into fully equipped digital classrooms and health clinics that can be deployed to remote areas of Africa.  The first “DigiTruck” in Africa was unveiled to the Tuleeni Orphanage in Tanzania in early August. The DigiTruck is now providing some 80 orphans at Tuleeni with a classroom full of high-quality, refur...

Design engineers can now create solutions with significantly more advanced functionality and connectivity while saving time and design costs by utilising the certified WiLink 8 module from Texas Instruments (TI) combined with i.MX6 processors from Freescale. Available from Arrow Electronics, this new module provides users with the best of both worlds: it enables Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo-connectivity in a single package which can be added to embe...

Arrow Electronics – in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon  – will showcase the new DragonBoard 410c “Internet of Things” (IoT) Starter Kit, which is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor and bundled with Amazon’s new IoT Software Development Kit (SDK), today at AWS re:Invent, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) annual user conference.

OEMs and end users building powerful Internet of Things (IoT) applications for businesses will be the target for Arrow Electronics through its new distribution agreement with Solair, a young technology innovator. Solair is an application platform for the Internet of Things that makes businesses smarter by connecting them with their products through compelling IoT applications.

The latest addition to the Arrow Electronics portfolio of development tools is the DECA evaluation board, featuring Altera’s MAX 10 FPGA and Enpirion power solutions. Altera’s MAX 10 FPGAs transforms non-volatile FPGAs by integrating dual-configuration flash, analogue blocks, memory, DSP and embedded processing capabilities all within a small form-factor single chip package.

A wide-ranging and all-embracing set of seminars on the Internet of Things (IoT) are being planned by Arrow Electronics. The IoT in Focus tour will encompass locations in Germany, France, UK, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Austria, and Switzerland and cover connectivity and embedded applications, system integration, big data and the cloud.

Development of a custom IC for ZRRO Technologies to help produce an innovative new remote controller that brings tablet and mobile phone-like gaming experiences to users’ televisions was expedited by a team from Arrow Electronics.  The Kickstarter-funded project incorporates ZRRO’s zTOUCH 3D-sensing technology and enables users to interact with their TVs from the couch using a hover-and-touch remote controller with the sensing ca...

An exclusive System on Module (SoM) that helps engineers exploit the new ARM-powered Freescale QorIQ LS1021A communication processor has been unveiled by Arrow Electronics, together with two associated carrier boards that give a choice of platforms for application development. Arrow developed the ECUcore-1021 SoM and boards together with Freescale and automation technology systems specialist SYS TEC electronic.

DragonBoard 410c, a low-cost development board design based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor is on sale at Arrow Electronics. Arrow will manufacture and distribute the DragonBoard 410c to community developers and commercial customers.  The credit card-sized kit is based on Linaro’s 96Boards specification and enables developers, makers, universities and commercial manufacturers to use the Snapdragon 410 processor for things such...

An open-source, specification-compliant board that is based on the new Freescale i.MX 7 microprocessor was announced at the Freescale Technology Forum by Arrow Electronics. Arrow also collaborated with Qualcomm Atheros, a subsidiary of Qualcomm on the board’s Bluetooth & Wi-Fi capabilities and with Linear Technologies on the board’s power supply.

Arrow Electronics has joined Linaro, the not-for-profit engineering organisation that consolidates and optimises open-source software for ARM applications. Arrow is the first Linaro collaborator with both hardware-design and distribution capabilities. “Arrow is excited to bring its best-in-class design engineering services, comprehensive product offerings and unparalleled global supply chain relationships to Linaro’s open-source commu...

Arrow Electronics engineers are standing by to help customers looking to take their first steps into IoT using Texas Instrument SimpleLink ultra-low power wireless microcontroller (MCU) platform.  The SimpleLink ultra-low power platform combines high levels of integration with a wide range of supported communications protocols including Bluetooth low energy, ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, Sub-1 GHz and ZigBee RF4CE.

Arrow Electronics and MultiTech Systemshave teamed up to bring the two companies’ expertise and M2M product portfolio to customers across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with a view to helping OEMs accelerate the development and integration of their products with IoT. Arrow and MultiTech have worked closely together in North America for approximately 20 years.

Arrow Electronics has teamed up with MMD, a brand licence partner for Philips Monitors, to extend its high-quality display solutions portfolio for systems integrators. Arrow customers can now significantly shorten design cycles by opting for ready-to-use Philips monitors in a wide range of sizes and with options such as integrated capacitive touch.

Converge has announced that it has received a AS6081 certification from the National Quality Assurance, USA. AS6081 is a quality certification that standardises the requirements for distributors in the procurement of parts, detection of counterfeits and establishment of quality management processes. This quality standard is intended to provide a higher level of protection and to assess, mitigate and control the risk of fraudulent/counterfeit part...

Arrow Electronics has acquired United Technical Publishing, a digital provider of product information to the global electronics components industry and a division of Hearst Business Media. United Technical Publishing’s portfolio of resources, aimed at engineers involved in product design, includes directories, e-newsletters, engineering-driven websites, inventory access tools and databases.

Arrow Electronics is buying the German-based distributor DATA MODUL. It has made an all-cash tender offer to acquire the shares of the company at €27.50 per share ($31.00 per share based on current exchange rates). The purchase price represents a premium of approximately 35 percent on the weighted average stock exchange price of the Data Modul AG-shares during the prior three months.

increasingly complex customer requirements in the Internet of Things (IoT) era at Embedded World 2015 in Nuremberg (Feb 24-26). In line with its ‘Intelligent Systems’ theme, the company will highlight technologies and capabilities ranging from individual components to complete system solutions. The distributor will outline its vision of intelligent systems that sense, connect and control by leveraging the embedded processing and wirel...

Arrow Electronics' distribution logistics centre (DLC) in Venlo, the Netherlands, has received EN 9120:2010 quality certification. This is a quality management system designed specifically for aerospace distributors. The EN 9120:2010 certification follows an audit and provision by Arrow representatives of detailed evidence of compliance.

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