News & Analysis

Tyco Electronics has chosen Arrow as its Danish Distributor of the Year for 2006. The award recognises Arrow Denmark’s high level of sales and its investments in support of the Tyco product line, which includes connectors, passives and electromechanical products.

The new A3969 from Allegro MicroSystems Europe is a compact dual full-bridge pulse-width modulated (PWM) motor driver integrated circuit which is ideally suited to applications in portable equipment or where board space is limited.

Maxwell Technologies has announced that a leading European producer of wind energy systems has placed a purchase order for 3 million BOOSTCAP BCAP0350 E D cell ultracapacitors to provide backup power for wind turbine blade pitch systems.

Fairchild Semiconductor has introduced a USB 2.0 switch that maximizes board real estate and downloading performance in today’s increasingly compact and sophisticated electronics. The FSUSB30 combines industry-leading bandwidth (>720MHz), low on-capacitance (6pF) and the highest available ESD protection (8kV) in a very small (1.4mm x 1.8mm x 0.55mm) UMLP device. These attributes result in rapid data transfer, diminished ESD effects and excellen...

National Instruments has announced the release of NI Measurement Studio 8.1, a comprehensive suite of class libraries and user interface controls for test, measurement and automation applications built using Microsoft Visual Studio. Measurement Studio 8.1 simplifies and accelerates remote monitoring and control with new network variables that help engineers communicate between Microsoft Windows or Web-based applications and remote test machines. ...

Analog Devices has introduced the third edition of its popular applications guide, A Designer’s Guide to Instrumentation Amplifiers. Used to amplify weak signals in the presence of strong interference and noise, instrumentation amplifiers (in-amps) are used in many applications: from motor control and automotive to medical instrumentation and data acquisition. With a large number of products to choose from, correctly identifying and matching t...

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...

Avago Technologies has introduced three new gate drive optocouplers optimized for reliability and performance. As equipment manufacturers in industrial automation and data center power supply markets transition to developing more energy efficient products which require fast switching operation, Avago has engineered new optocouplers with the industry's highest common mode rejection ratio (40 kV/µs @VCM=1500V). Avago is a leading supplier of ...

Texas Instruments has announced its newest 3GHz-performing wireless infrastructure baseband product that boosts applications for GSM-based base stations while addressing new markets and requirements for WiMAX and TD-SCDMA. With three cores running at 1GHz each, the TMS320TCI6487 processor enables base station manufacturers to extend their existing designs while entering into new markets, requiring small form factor applications with an exceptiona...

Cherry Electrical Products has appointed Electronic Resources as its Irish distributor. The franchised distributor, based in Dublin and sister enterprise of Option Electronics, is a leading distributor and service provider to major OEMs and EMS companies.