News & Analysis
LED safety committee formed by UL
We all know Underwriters Laboratories, the safety testing and certification organization. It has just announced that it has concluded the process to form a Standards Technical Panel (STP) to be the consensus body for the development of the proposed first edition of UL 8750, the Standard for Safety for Light Emitting Diode (LED) Light Sources for use in Lighting Products.
Farnell/ Schaffner/ University of York EMC Award 2007 Announced
Schaffner has announced the winner of the 2007 Farnell/Schaffner/University of York award for best EMC project. This year’s winner is James Johnson for his project considering the safety and environmental requirements of electronic equipment on railway rolling stock.
National Instruments Joins Freescale, IBM and Xilinx in Power.org Collaboration
National Instruments has announced it has joined Power.org, an open and collaborative organisation dedicated to developing and promoting Power Architecture technology as the preferred open standard platform for the electronics industry. Power Architecture technology, an instruction set architecture prevalent in microprocessors, forms an enhanced platform for collaborative hardware and software innovation between leading technology companies such...
Q35 ATX motherboard supports Core 2 Dual and Quad processors
The newest addition to the BVM range of ATX motherboards is the MX-Q35, a unit based on the Intel Q35 system chipset. Any of Intel's Core 2 Duo and Quad processor family in the LGA775 package can be specified, the FSB provides a selectable blazing fast 1333/1066/800 MHz; up to 4 GB of system memory, configured as dual channel DDR2 667/800 SDRAM, is supported. The motherboard is fitted with a PCI-E x 16 slot, giving 4 GB/s bi-direction interfac...
Northern Connectors wins Harting award
Northern Connectors has won the Harting Electronic Specialist Distributor of the Year award for 2007. The award is made on merit, and is based on sales growth, design-in activity and overall performance. Founded 25 years ago and based in St. Helens, Merseyside, Northern Connectors are specialist distributors of electronic and electromechanical components. The company has sales representation throughout the UK and is committed to providing the hig...
Fanless IPC Controller with 4 PCI expansion slots
Review Display Systems has announced the AEC-6915 Fanless IPC Controller from Aaeon. It comes equipped with 4 x PCI expansion slots to fulfil diverse requirements in a diverse market. Other features include plug in VGA, Motion, DAQ and Serial-Port PCI cards.
Remploy Electronics appoints Production Scheduler
Remploy has appointed Adam Broad as group master production scheduler, a new role that has been introduced as part of Remploy Electronics’ ongoing business process review. This pivotal role has been created for long term planning to ensure that all Remploy Electronics sites run smoothly in the three main process areas: new product introduction, enquiry to order, and order to shipment.
Multimode step relay dimmer from Finder
The 13.51 step relay dimmer from Finder can operate both as a simple step relay and as a sophisticated dimmer to offer flexible control of lighting. Step relay dimmers are smart lighting circuit components that can either be used as part of a wall-mounted dimmer unit, or more flexibly, as one of several controllers in a lighting console for a larger room or small building.
Digi-Key and Bulgin Components sign Global Distribution Agreement
Digi-Key Corporation and Bulgin Components have announced the signing of a worldwide distribution agreement. Digi-Key is one of the fastest growing distributors of electronic components in the world, shipping products to more than 140 countries from its facility in Thief River Falls, Minn. Bulgin Components specializes in the manufacture of mains and waterproof connectors, including IP68 Buccaneer waterproof connectors, IEC connectors and cord se...
NIC strengthens its European sales team
NIC Components Europe has strengthened its sales team with the appointment of Tony Titre who joins the company as a Technical Sales Engineer. Based from the company’s headquarters in the UK, Tony will have responsibility for design-in at OEMs and for technically supporting distribution channels throughout Europe.