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Farnell expands Industrial Ops tools and supplies

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Farnell is exapanding its range of tools and production supplies aimed at improving efficiency of industrial operations. For example, categories featured in Farnell’s selection include chemicals, datacom, ESD protection, fasteners, fume extraction, hand tools, personal protection & safety, soldering equipment, storage cases, and measurement & inspection tools. A limited-time 10% discount is available on certain brands and categories in the ...

Anglia regrets ADI franchise decision

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Anglia is taking the unusual step of issuing a press release following the loss of a significant franchise. Whilst acknowledging that ADI is perfectly within its rights to terminate its agreements with Anglia and two other regional EMEA distributors, the company believes that the decision will have a negative impact on customer choice. Explains Anglia’s CEO, Steve Rawlins: “Not everyone ...

0.5mm wire-bondable resistors for hybrid circuits

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Richardson RFPD is aiming at hybrid circuits by stocking a range of wire-bondable top-contact 0202 resistors from Kyocera AVX. Measuring 0.51 x 0.51mm, members of the WBR series are rated at 250mW and up to 10GHz. Operation is over -55 to +125ºC, and they have a temperature coefficient of +/-150ppm/°C. 23 values are being offered, from the lowest at 7.5Ω ...

Astute Group expands opto-electronics with Isocom Components

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Astute Group has signed a distribution agreement with British opto-electronics manufacturer, Isocom Components. The franchised distributor will offer the manufacturer’s optocouplers, optoswitches, photo triacs, and photo mosfets. Graham McBeth, chairman of Isocom Components, remarked on Astute’s “excellent relationships with a number of the largest customer groups and strong design influence, particularly in Europe”. “Astute can help customers navigate the complexities ...

The green potential of the grey market

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Scepticism around grey market component suppliers could mean overlooking a means to achieving a truly circular electronics supply chain, argues Liam Kilmister. Some electronic manufacturers and procurement experts avoid the secondary market due to fears of counterfeit components and quality issues. This concern is understandable, considering the increasing presence of fraudulent parts over the past two decades. However, painting all ...

Bluetooth + Zigbee module has MCU and hardware security

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Mouser Electronics is stocking modules that combine Bluetooth and Zigbee radios with a secured microcontroller. Called WBZ350, they are made by Microchip and based on its PIC32CX-BZ family of 32bit wireless MCUs, in this case a PIC32CX5109BZ31032 with a 64MHz Arm Cortex M4F processor. There are two versions: WBZ350PE has an on-board antenna WBZ350UE has a U.FL connector for an ...

Fast processor boosts SoM for industrial IoT

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The VisionSOM-RT1170 (SLS14) system on module (SoM) by SoMLabs is based on the i.MX-RT117x processor which incorporates Cortex-M7 and Cortex-M4 cores to deliver up to 1GHz for the M7 and 400MHz for the M4 core. The SoM is available in the UK from franchised distributor Inelco Hunter. It also has 2MB on-chip RAM, up to 1Gb (128MB) of SDRAM and ...

Distribution views: let’s talk lead times

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Caroline Hayes conducted a virtual roundtable discussion about the post-Covid reset with Avnet Americas’ Dayna Badhorn, Anglia’s Debbie Marriott, Ian Wallace of DigiKey, Jose Lok from Farnell Global, Stephan Hubert at Future, Mouser’s Graham Maggs and Gary Evans from Powell Electronics. If you had to sum up the economic state of the electronics industry in one paragraph what would that ...

Design-in support for TFT displays

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Review Display Systems (RDS) offers a design-in support for the range of industry standard TFT displays modules it supplies. The UK company’s range of medium-sized TFT displays are suitable for a range of industry sectors, applications and operating environments. It can design-in, support and supply TFT display modules in sizes ranging from 5-inch to 12-inch and with a range of ...

Avnet Silica bolsters customer Cyber Resilience Act compliance

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Avnet Silica has outlined its strategy for supporting customers’ compliance with the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which is due to be formally adopted this year. The company highlighted the range of device management and provisioning services it provides at its Logistics Centre – in Poing, Bavaria – to help enable secure and compliant product deployment. It will also be ...