Distribution

Arrow Electronics has expanded its sensor portfolio through an EMEA distribution agreement with Invensense, a TDK company. The Invensense portfolio features MEMS motion sensors, MEMS microphones, and ultrasonic time-of-flight (ToF) range sensor solutions. Invensense offers MEMS analogue and digital microphones with its Smartsound platform for home automation and IoT applications. The company’s Smartsonic platform comprises ToF sensors utilizing an transducer ...

Economic headwinds and geo-political events have created new challenges for everyone in the electronics market, and changes in customer buying habits have resulted in a widespread slow-down since the second half of 2018, writes Rob Rospedzihowski, President, Sales, EMEA, Farnell. While this period of uncertainty looks like it will remain for a time, customers’ expectations remain high. This is an ...

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An agreement between Components Bureau and Artesyn covers the UK and Ireland, adding the latter’s high power modular and programmable power supplies to the distributor’s range, which includes AC/DC power supplies and DC/DC converters from a selection of manufacturers. Artesyn’s power offering ranges from products of 3W to hundreds of kW, for use in a variety of power supply control ...

Claimed to be the industry’s first fanless 1kW modular power supply, the COOLX1000 from Advanced Energy is now available from Relec Electronics. It is designed for operation in sensitive environments, such as medical and scientific applications. The power supply measures 6.5 x 10-inch (165 x 254mm) and is 1U high. The U-channel design is based on patented, resonant technology. It ...

Two 12-inch TFT-LCDs released by Display Technology are designed for applications that require consistent readability in challenging conditions or full HD with low power consumption. The AUO G121EAN01.2 12.1-inch WXGA display has white luminance of 1000Cd/m2 (typical) to display images, graphics, and text clearly under a high level of ambient light. It has a wide viewing angle, 89° in both ...

Telit has added the ME910G1, an LTE-M and NB-IoT combo module, to the xE910 product family. The module is now available at Rutronik UK. The manufacturer says its lower power consumption and enhanced quality of coverage specifically tailor the module for low-data throughput IoT applications. The ME910G1 LTE UE Cat M1/NB2 module offers a power saving mode and extended discontinuous ...

The VCNL3040 integrated proximity sensor from Vishay, with a detection distance of 30cm, is now available from TTI. The sensor combines IR emitter, photodetectors for proximity, LED driver, amplifiers, ADC circuitry and proprietary signal processor in a QFN package. The sensor features a programmable interrupt feature and supports the I2C bus communication interface, offering wake-up functionality for the microcontroller, thereby ...

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the ADF5610 wideband synthesizer with an integrated voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) from Analog Devices. The ADF5610 is designed for applications such as aerospace and defense, wireless infrastructure, microwave point-to-point links, electronic test and measurement, and satellite terminals. Available from Mouser Electronics, the component is a wideband fractional-N synthesizer that generates RF outputs from 57MHz-14.6GHz and with ...

Anglia Components has expanded its range of thermal management components including board mount, extruded and BGA heatsinks following a distribution agreement for the UK and Ireland with Birmingham-based manufacturer, ABL Aluminium Components. David Pearson, technical director of Anglia, commented “We aim to offer customers a complete solution and the addition of ABL broadens our profile of these components which play ...