Design & Manufacture


Knowledge database has latest information with more than 600,000 documents

RS Components has added approximately 605,000 documents globally to its product data library database recently, enhancing customers’ ability to select the optimal product for their specific application requirements. The supplementar

RS Components | 13-06-2016

Dual-colour red and IR diode balances signal levels for medical monitoring

Latest from Vishay is a new dual-colour red and IR emitting diode designed to save space in wearable devices and medical patient monitoring systems. Offered in a compact 2mm x 2mm x 0.87mm package, the VSMD66694 features wavelengths of 6

Vishay | 13-06-2016

Board enables quick and easy evaluation of LVDS isolators

Stocked by Mouser, the Analog Devices EVAL-ADN4651EB1Z evaluation board enables designers to quickly and easily evaluate the features and capabilities of the ADN4651 LVDS Isolators. The board provides separate ground and power planes for ea

Mouser Electronics | 10-06-2016

New low-power switches ease industrial network migration to Ethernet

Microsemi has unveiled its new Ocelot product family, a low-power, feature-rich Ethernet switch series optimized for communications networking in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market. Designed for the specific needs of industr

MicroSemi | 09-06-2016

Collaboration with ARM accelerates custom SoC and IoT system designs

Cadence Design Systems has introduced the industry’s first complete hosted end-to-end solution to enable designers to accelerate their custom SoC and Internet of Things (IoT) design process using ARM Cortex-M processors. The offering accele

Cadence | 08-06-2016

Microwave mixer range can satisfy almost any requirement up to 50GHz

One of the most extensive mixer product lines on the market is now available from Link Microtek. Manufactured by L-3 Narda-MITEQ, the family of mixers comprises more than 400 standard models, offering a wide variety of configurations for op

Link Microtek | 08-06-2016

RS Components – Arduino board addition enables users to develop Internet of Things applications

The Arduino 101 Industrial, available from RS Components, is a development board that evaluates the 101 Industrial Chiwawa LGA module. Similar to the Arduino Yun, the board features an on-board ATmega32u4 microcontroller, a Qualcomm Atheros

RS Components | 07-06-2016

Interface and clocks re-timer evaluation module

Texas Instruments’ DPHY440SSRHREVM DPHY re-timer evaluation module (EVM), stocked by Mouser, is designed to evaluate SN65DPHY440SSRHR device. The SN65DPHY440SSRHR is a one to four lane and clock MIPI DPHY re-timer that regenerates the DPHY

Mouser Electronics | 07-06-2016

TVS diode arrays help prevent equipment damage from electrostatic discharges

Littelfuse has introduced the SP1026 Series 15pF 30kV Bidirectional Discrete TVS Diode Array, designed specifically to protect sensitive electronic equipment from damage due to electrostatic discharges (ESD). Zener diodes fabricated using a

Littelfuse | 07-06-2016

Development tools combines high performance and ease of development

Stocked by Mouser, the STMicroelectronics STM32 development tools include discovery boards and kits, starter/evaluation Kits, other boards and associated components to aid in development of designs based on STM32 ARM Cortex microcontrollers

Mouser Electronics | 06-06-2016

New programmable unipolar hall-effect switch with built in diagnostics

Allegro MicroSystems, Europe has announced a new unipolar hall-effect switch with an externally enabled diagnostic function and user-programmable switchpoints. The A1162 has on-chip electromagnetic coils that are used to implement self-tes

Allegro | 06-06-2016

New USB interface ICs give engineers greater I/O options

RS Components now stocks a duo of compact dual and quad-channel hi-speed USB interface ICs with accompanying hardware from FTDI Chip. These devices are new versions of FTDI’s well-known FT2232H and FT4232H ICs, which are designed to provid

RS Components | 03-06-2016

Easily develop and design graphical user interfaces

Microchip announce their MPLAB Harmony Graphics Composer (MHGC), a modern and flexible GUI composer tool. MHGC is a free development tool for developing GUIs for all PIC32 microcontrollers through their Harmony Configurator and MPLAB X Inte

Microchip Technology | 03-06-2016

Farnell element14 – Evaluation kit is ideal for industrial applications including motor control and lighting

Atmel’s SAM E70 Xplained evaluation kit is ideal for evaluating and prototyping with their SMART SAM S70 and SAM E70 ARM Cortex®-M7 core- based microcontrollers and is now available from Farnell element14. The kit is an evaluation p

Farnell element14 | 03-06-2016

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