Design & Manufacture


New PCB design tool enhances workflow collaboration between designers

Altium has announced a new PCB design tool created to enhance workflow collaboration between electrical and mechanical designers. Created in direct response to the divide between electrical and mechanical workflows, PCBWorks provides a p

Altium | 10-02-2015

Thermally-conductive acrylic interface pads transfer heat and dampen vibration

Available now from Digi-Key, 3M's 5590H thermally-conductive acrylic interface pads offer effective heat transfer and vibration damping for demanding thermal applications. The 5590H3M Series thermal-management materials are proven, hig

Digikey | 09-02-2015

New generation general-purpose low-power operational amplifiers

Introduced as a new generation of general-purpose, low-power operational amplifiers, the Texas Instruments (TI) OPA316 family of single, dual, and quad op amps suits a wide variety of applications Featuring rail-to-rail input and output

Texas Instruments | 09-02-2015

Develop and implement a wireless sensor or control network

Available now from Mouser, the CEL ZMW-KIT-ETH-1 MeshWorks Ethernet Gateway Development Kit demonstrates the MeshWorks turnkey wireless solution for fast development and implementation of a wireless sensor or control network. Based on

Mouser Electronics | 09-02-2015

Kit for the evaluation and protoyping of SMART SAMA5D4 ARM based embedded microprocessors

Now available from RS Components, the Atmel ATSAMA5D4-XULT XPlained Ultra Evaluation Kit is designed for the evaluation and protoyping of SMART SAMA5D4 ARM based embedded microprocessor units (eMPU). Ultra benefits enable the designer to

RS Components | 06-02-2015

High-performance differential amp for RF, IF, or high-speed time-domain applications

The Texas Instruments (TI) LMH5401 is a high-performance, differential amplifier optimized for radio frequency (RF), intermediate frequency (IF), or high-speed, DC-coupled, time-domain applications. The device is ideal for DC- or AC-co

Texas Instruments | 06-02-2015

Complete development environment for ARM Premium Mobile IP Suite

Cadence Design Systems has announced availability of a complete system-on-chip (SoC) development environment supporting the new ARM premium mobile IP suite that incorporates the latest ARM Cortex-A72 processor, ARM Mali-T880 GPU and ARM

Cadence | 06-02-2015

Evaluation board based on high-efficiency monolithic synchronous step-down regulator

Mouser now stocks the STMicroelectronics STEVAL-ISA159V1 evaluation board which is based on a high-efficiency monolithic synchronous step-down regulator, capable of delivering up to 400mA of DC current. The fixed 3.3V output requires n

Mouser Electronics | 06-02-2015

New technology delivers highly cost-effective automotive crystals

Murata has launched the XRCGB-F-A series crystal units for automotive applications - the first in the world to use an exclusive new, proprietary package technology that delivers consistent superior quality, mass production capabilities, and

Murata | 06-02-2015

Highly-integrated TVS protection device safeguards USB 2.0 interfaces on portables

Semtech Corp. (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced t The RClamp1255P, a new high-performance, low capacitance transient voltage suppression (TVS) device has been introduced by Se

Semtech | 06-02-2015

Latest design software with easy-to-use interface to speed designs

Following its recent global agreement with Altium, a leading supplier of PCB design software solutions, Farnell element14 is now exclusively stocking Altium’s CircuitStudio software in the element14 Design Center. The software rounds out Fa

Farnell element14 | 05-02-2015

Triple-axis gyroscope for high-speed motion and wearable applications

InvenSense's ITG-3701 triple-axis gyroscope is now available from Digi-Key. Today’s wearable sports applications require higher than the common ±2000dps (degrees per second) FSR so that critical data is not lost at the point of impact.

Digikey | 04-02-2015

Starter kits for most energy-friendly ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller family

Digi-Key now offers from stock Energy Micro's EFM32 Wonder Gecko Starter Kit. Describes as 'the most energy-friendly ARM Cortex-M4 microcontrollers', EFM32 Wonder Geckos, are available with new features like floating point unit (FPU), d

Digikey | 03-02-2015

Fastnew Raspberry Pi 2 board offers 1GB of RAM to run bigger and more powerful projects

The new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is now available from Farnell element14. The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is six times faster than the previous model and now offers 1GB of RAM to run bigger and more powerful projects. The Raspberry Pi 2 marks

Farnell element14 | 03-02-2015

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