Design & Manufacture


World's smallest GDT protect electronics from low-to-medium level surges

Designed to protect sensitive electronics from low-to-medium level lightning-induced surges and other voltage transients, two new ranges of miniature surface-mount two-terminal gas discharge tubes (GDTs) have been introduced by Littelfuse.

Littelfuse | 11-07-2016

Amplifier eliminates the need for external DC blocks and RF port matching

New from Custom MMIC, the CMD238 2-20GHz amplifier expands its proven BroadRange Distributed Amplifier portfolio. The CMD238 is a wideband GaAs MMIC distributed amplifier designed for wideband applications requiring high linearity in a s

Custom MMIC | 07-07-2016

IoT development board easy to use and suitable for both beginners and advanced users

Stocked by Farnell element14, the chipKIT Wi-FIRE is based on the popular Arduino open-source hardware, prototyping platform based, Powerful PIC32 MZ2048ECG microcontroller. Wi-FIRE is easy to use and suitable for both beginners and advance

Farnell element14 | 06-07-2016

Development kit for prototypes like smartwatch, remote sensor tag or smarthome controllers

Available from Mouser, MikroElektronika Hexiwear wearable development kit can be used to create prototypes like a smartwatch, remote sensor tag or smarthome controller. This do-anything device is compact with high-end style and usability.

Mouser Electronics | 06-07-2016

Development board features Ethernet/USB, accelerometer and magnetometer

In stock at Farnell element14, the FRDM-K64F is a freedom development platform built on the ARM Cortex-M4 core featuring Kinetis K series MK64FN1M0VLL12 microcontroller. This freedom board can be used to evaluate the K64, K63 and K24 Kineti

Farnell element14 | 05-07-2016

Microcontroller starter kit has low current active mode and short wake-up times

Available from RS Components, the Silicon Labs Pearl Gecko starter kit (SLSTK3401A) enables you to evaluate both EFM32 Pearl Gecko and EFM32 Jade Gecko based products. The microcontrollers feature a powerful 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 Cor

RS Components | 05-07-2016

Wideband balanced driver amplifier delivers high gain at high frequencies

A new low-noise driver amplifier, the 26-35GHz CMD243 has been introduced by Custom MMIC. The wideband self-biasing GaAs MMIC balanced driver amplifier offers 15.5dB of gain with an output P1dB compression point of +21dBm. The amplifier ope

Custom MMIC | 04-07-2016

Board combines superior multimedia capabilities on a highly compact form factor

Stocked by Mouser, the VIA Technologies EPIA-P910 Pico-ITX board features a compact 10mm x 7.2cm Pico-ITX form factor and a 1.2GHz VIA Eden X4 processor. The board combines superior multimedia capabilities of the VIA VX11H media system proc

Mouser Electronics | 01-07-2016

Interface devices enable designers to differentiate their products and speed time-to-market

Available from Mouser, Silicon Labs CP21xx Smart Interface ICs leverage the company's world-class mixed-signal design expertise to provide a family of high-performance interface devices that enable designers to differentiate their products

Mouser Electronics | 30-06-2016

Hardware development kits are a complete IoT development solution

Particle Photon IoT hardware development kits are a complete IoT development solution with a powerful ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller with a Broadcom Wi-Fi chip. The microcontroller and Wi-Fi chip are housed in a tiny thumbnail-sized module c

Mouser Electronics | 30-06-2016

High-performance distributed amplifiers offer positive gain slope

Latest from Custom MMIC are two new BroadRange distributed amplifiers, the DC-22 GHz CMD240 and 2-22 GHz CMD241 which feature a novel positive gain slope, which eases the design of broadband systems by eliminating equalizer circuits or adde

Custom MMIC | 29-06-2016

Educational tool equips current and future engineers with real-world power expertise

Texas Instruments is bridging the gap between power theory and real-world applications for engineering students and industry professionals alike with the TI Power Management Lab Kit (TI-PMLK) series. All electronic systems, without exceptio

Texas Instruments | 28-06-2016

DC motor driver mbed shield has ideal interface for developing with brushed DC motors

In stock now at Mouser, the Maxim MAXREFDES89 full bridge DC motor driver mbed shield provides an ideal interface for anyone developing with brushed DC motors. The design is a mbed-compatible, Arduino form factor shield for the rapid develo

Mouser Electronics | 24-06-2016

Next-generation BLE solutions with easy-to-use interface and embedded scripting capability

Microchip has announced two next-generation Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) solutions with an easy-to-use ASCII-style command interface that makes the devices easy to configure and eliminates any complicated code compiling. The RN4870 and RN4871

Microchip Technology | 24-06-2016

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