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Silica, an Avnet has been commended by Maxim Integrated Products with a Distribution Excellence Award during a partner conference in Munich. Silica received the award for significantly exceeding the target for Design Registrations agreed during the previous year’s conference.

Connecting devices is key for IoT and M2M applications. Wireless links are a fundamental way of making these connections, allowing devices to be configured and controlled around the world. But this global capability introduces a wide range of choices that impact on the power consumption and performance of the whole system.

The Ampire standard range of displays with Cover Lens and Projected Capacitive Touchscreen are available from Avnet Embedded. Sizes consist of 4.3in, 5in, 7in and 10.1in. Cover lens thickness reaches up to 4mm with blacks. Screen printing of customer’s logos is also possible.

Leisure and entertainment applications including pay per play casino gaming machines are being targeted by Avnet Embedded and Koe with a range of high performance, wide aspect ratio TFT display modules. Three displays are available: 6.2in. with 640 x 240 pixels, 10.2in. with 800 x 256 pixels.

We have the current trend of the IoT to thank for driving a surge of embedded system development. As more and more B2B and B2C organisations strive to cloud-enable their products and develop a new range of services offering connectivity either direct to the cloud or via a gateway is a vital element of any design. By Simon Duggleby, Marketing Manager, Semiconductors, RS Components.

Motiv8 has stirred the pot for its two upcoming free technical forums for engineers in June attracting companies to the forums including ISSI and MobileMark Antenna Solutions. The forums covering RF and Wireless and LED and Lighting will take place at the Williams F1 Conference Centre at Grove, near Oxford on June 16 and at the Emirates Old Trafford (pictured), Manchester on June 18.

New wireless technologies emerging in response to demand from the IoT are now augmenting global cellular networks, bringing 5G one step closer. By Guillaume Crinon, Business Development Manager, Avnet Memec.

Avnet Embedded is introducing a new 7in WVGA TFT-LCD module from Mitsubish Electric. It is aimed at industrial applications such as construction, agricultural vehicles, factory-automation and weaving equipment. Sample sales commence at the end of February. The module's 6.8G vibration-resistant acceleration is seven times greater than that of conventional modules, which it combines with a -40 to 85 degrees Celsius operating temperature range, and ...

SILICA will be focussing on connectivity and automation and will be hosting seven demonstrations at Embedded World 2015 in Nuremberg (Feb 24-26) dismissing the norm of glass case displays and wall-mounted videos. So visitors will be able to watch the Maxim beer mug factory (though no mention of whether beer is included) and a chance to order different chocolates via NFC tags.

In August 2014, the USB-IF released the specification for the Type C connector for USB 3.1, promising a simpler and more integrated single-cable solution. Steve Rogerson looks at how likely that might be.