Design & Manufacture


Highly anticipated MFPGA evaluation kit offers best-in-class security and reliability

Mouser is now offering the PolarFire Evaluation Kit from Microsemi, allowing designers to evaluate the highly regarded PolarFire FPGA product family. The flash-based FPGAs deliver 100K to 500K logic elements at up to 50% lower power consump

Mouser Electronics | 24-08-2017

BLE wireless modules ideal for range of applications including IoT, home and factory automation

Mouser is now shipping EZ-BLE PRoC XR Bluetooth 4.2 modules and evaluation boards from Cypress Semiconductor. These Bluetooth low energy wireless modules offer an extended range of up to 400m bidirectional communication (or up to 450m in be

Mouser Electronics | 18-07-2017

Turning children’s whacky ideas into real life engineering projects

RS Components is sponsoring the vlog channel, ‘Kids Invent Stuff’. Kids Invent Stuff is a YouTube channel where children, aged from five to 11 years old, get the chance to have their ideas or inventions actually made real by engineers.

RS Components | 14-07-2017

New evaluation boards facilitate prototyping and development of USBPD applications

ROHM has recently announced the availability of USB Power Delivery (USBPD) compatible transmitter/receiver evaluation boards designed to connect to information and peripheral devices using the new Type-C connector. USBPD extends the pow

ROHM Semiconductor | 12-07-2017

New machine learning and sensor-to-cloud security solutions for intelligence at the Edge

Lattice Semiconductor has announced the availability of new reference designs based on its iCE40 UltraPlus FPGA devices to address emerging market requirements and to enable an expedited product development cycle. Expanding one of the indus

Lattice | 29-06-2017

Developing artificial intelligence chip for predictive maintenance in smart factories

ROHM Semiconductor and A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME) recently announced the joint development of an AI chip to boost efficiency in predictive maintenance for smart factories. The concept of ‘predictive maintenance’ has become

ROHM Semiconductor | 21-06-2017

Evaluation module for gas detection, air quality control, HVAC, appliance and automotive industries

A PCB evaluation module from Figaro and available now from RS Components, is for use with the TGS2444 ammonia gas sensor. The operating mode of the TGS2444 is cyclic with intermittent detection, but with this evaluation module the periodic

RS Components | 08-06-2017

New ultra-low power IoT reference platform for next generation of wearables

EnSilica and sureCore have announced that EnSilica has developed sureCore’s new, ultra-low power IoT reference platform targeted principally at the development of the next generation of wearable consumer and medical applications. Wi

EnSilica | 08-06-2017

One stop shop for complete PCB design and device programming

LDD Technology provides a range electronic design services to meet the needs of a wide range of customers from development houses to major international OEMs. Two key elements of any new design are PCB design and device programming. As this

LDD Technology | 08-06-2017

Kit for engineers to quickly and easily evaluate energy-harvesting designs

Mouser is now shipping the CYALKIT-E04 S6AE102A and S6AE103A evaluation kit (EVK) from Cypress Semiconductor. The kit allows engineers to quickly and easily develop battery-free applications with an energy-harvesting device using Cypress’ u

Mouser Electronics | 02-06-2017

Display designer kits offer instant option for creating prototype user interface concepts

AndersDX has launched a new family of Display Designer Kits offering customers an instant option for creating prototype user interface concepts from a pre-integrated touch screen and processor that can form the basis of or even be the produ

Anders | 22-05-2017

PSoC four motor control evaluation kit for DC motor control applications

The Cypress CY8CKIT-037 kit is used in conjunction with a PSoC 4 CY8CKIT-042 Pioneer kit (RS 124-4183) to evaluate DC motor control applications. It is available now from RS Components. The kit supports BLDC (brushless direct current) motor

RS Components | 12-05-2017

Comprehensive portfolio of advanced gigabit Ethernet products offers ease of design

A new portfolio of 48 Gigabit Ethernet chips featuring advanced capabilities, certified compliance, comprehensive software support and copy-ready evaluation tools is now available from Microchip. The new suite of products, known together as

Microchip Technology | 21-03-2017

Advanced motor-control tool with auto-tuning and self-commissioning capability

Microchip has announced the immediate availability of their advanced motor-control software plug-in for the MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with auto-tuning and self-commissioning capability. The plug-in, called motorBe

Microchip Technology | 03-03-2017

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