Design & Manufacture


Faster and more powerful 'out of the box IoT ready' Raspberry Pi board

Farnell element14 now offers the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. The new generation board is faster and more powerful and comes with built-in wireless LAN and Bluetooth connectivity. It adds to element14's broad product portfolio which inclu

Farnell element14 | 29-02-2016

latest generation Raspberry Pi delivers 50% higher performance

The new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B credit-card-sized single-board computer from the Raspberry Pi Foundation is now available from RS Components. Targeting industry, homes, schools and colleges worldwide, this latest generation of Raspberry

RS Components | 29-02-2016

Pioneer kit for high-performance embedded development

Mouser is now stocking the FM4 S6E2GM Pioneer Kit from Cypress Semiconductor. This easy-to-use platform allows developers to design with and evaluate the FM4 S6E2GM-Series of 32-bit microcontrollers. The S6E2GM-Series microcontrollers are b

Mouser Electronics | 29-02-2016

Development platform allows real-time, closed-loop motor control development

The C2000 Piccolo LaunchPad is now available from RS Components. It is seen as an ideal starting-point evaluation and development platform, enabling users to explore real-time, closed-loop control development. It is based around the C20

RS Components | 26-02-2016

Develop ZigBee, Thread and BLE protocol-mesh networks for Mighty Gecko SoCs

Silicon Labs' Mighty Gecko Mesh development kit is now available from Mouser stock. The kit helps designers to prototype and develop ZigBee, Thread, Bluetooth Smart protocol-mesh network systems for the Mighty Gecko SoCs. The EFR32MG

Mouser Electronics | 25-02-2016

Educational tool targets beginners to electronics and the more experienced

Powered by Intel, and developed by Arduino and Intel, the Genuino 101 Development Board, an educational tool for beginners to electronics and programming, is now available from RS Components. More experienced users can also use the boa

RS Components | 25-02-2016

Integrated solution creates a secure platform for IoT devices

Icon Labs and Micrium have jointly announced the integration of Icon Labs’ Floodgate Security Framework with Micrium’s µC/OS-III RTOS. The integrated solution creates a secure platform for IoT devices and extends the Internet of Secure T

Icon Labs | 25-02-2016

New driver amplifier for compact high-linearity RF and microwave applications

Custom MMIC's new CMD231 is a wideband 2 - 6GHz GaAs MMIC driver amplifier that offers high gain, single positive supply voltage, low current consumption, and small die size. The device is ideal for communications systems needing small s

Custom MMIC | 25-02-2016

Upgrade delivers J-Link to Atmel Xplained evaluation kits

Segger’s J-Link is now available on Atmel's low cost Xplained evaluation platforms, as an on-board debug probe, bringing the proven reliability and outstanding performance of the J-Link line of debug probes to the Atmel Xplained evaluation

Segger | 25-02-2016

Ultra low-power Bluetooth SMART (BLE 4.1) system on a chip

The Atmel SmartConnect BTLC1000, an ultra low-power Bluetooth SMART (BLE 4.1) system on a chip (SoC), is now available from Mouser stock. The BTLC1000 has an integrated microcontroller (MCU), transceiver, modem, MAC, PA, TR switch and po

Mouser Electronics | 25-02-2016

Design tool portfolio enhanced and upgraded

Digi-Key has announced key updates to Scheme-it and PCBWeb, two influential design tools in its portfolio. Scheme-it enables designers to quickly sketch and document their concepts and designs. With its electronic back-of-the-napkin func

Digikey | 24-02-2016

Two new IoT starter kits feature EnOcean and IBM technologies

Farnell element14 has launched two Internet of Things (IoT) starter kits that tap into technologies from EnOcean and IBM. Both Entrepreneur and Enterprise editions feature micro-computer boards from Farnell element14 and energy harvesting

Farnell element14 | 24-02-2016

Secure communications solution for safety-critical IoT applications

Lynx Software Technologies has unveiled the LynxSecure 5.3 Separation Kernel Hypervisor and announced a powerful new capability that extends the principle of domain separation to the network connection. At the same time, in partnership with

Lynx | 24-02-2016

Ultra low-jitter programmable oscillator with a fractional-N frequency synthesizer

Mouser now stocks the Texas Instruments LMK61E2 ultra low-jitter fully-programmable PLLatinum oscillator with a fractional-N frequency synthesizer. The device includes an integrated VCO that generates commonly used reference clocks. T

Mouser Electronics | 24-02-2016

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