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Automation investment gives distributor a lift

Intelligent, automated lifts have been installed at Vanilla Electronics as part of a £200,000 investment in the Thetford-based distributor and manufacturer’s technology centre. The company supplies manufacturing services, such as customised design, component supply, kitting, box-build manufacturing and supply chain services. The company has installed two 9.6m tall intelligent automated tower storage units (Lean lifts) ...

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Mouser brings rich graphics to mobile devices with NXP processors

Fully-depleted silicon on insulator (FD-SoI) technology i.MX7ULP applications processors from NXP Semiconductors are now available from Mouser Electronics. They support low power graphics operation and include 2D and 3D graphics processing units (GPUs) for graphics applications in portable medical devices, wearable products, smart home controls, gaming accessories and portable printers and scanners. The processors are ...

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Mouser signs global agreement with Formerica to stock Fiber Channel and 100G optical range

Following the signing of a global distribution agreement with Formerica Optoelectronics, Mouser announces that the former’s product range for data centres, enterprise IT, networking, 5G, IoT and broadcast applications are now available from the distributor. Mouser now stocks the company’s optical transceivers, active optical cables,Fibre Channel protocol products and serial digital interface (SDI) transceivers. The ...

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Versatile Nordic dev kit supports LTE standards, says Rutronik UK

Tools to evaluate and develop application firmware based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF9160 system in package (SiP) are provided in the nRF9160 development kit, which is now available from Rutronik UK. The single board kit is designed for cellular IoT development and supports 690MHz – 960MHz and 1710MHz -2200MHz for both M1 and NB-IoT standards. The ...

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RS Components offers Renesas’ power modules for servers

Encapsulated power modules from Renesas Electronics are now available from distributor, RS Components. The ISL8210M, ISL8212M, ISL82180M and ISL8282M power modules are single-channel, synchronous step-down power modules that provide PoL conversion for fpgas, dsps, asics and memory in servers, storage, optical networking, telecoms and industrial applications. The modules deliver 10A or 15A continuous current at PoL and ...

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Rutronik UK adds Nordic’s Bluetooth 5.1 SoC for navigation

Believed to be one of the first devices to support Bluetooth Core 5.1, Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52811 SoC is now available from Rutronik UK The Bluetooth Core 5.1 specification was introduced early this year and adds tracking and location functions. The nRF52811 is a multi-protocol SoC that supports IEEE 802.15.4 for Thread and ZigBee and also Bluetooth Direction Finding ...

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Farnell adds MKR shields to Arduino line

Distributor, Farnell, has added four compact Arduino MKR shields to its Arduino product range. The accessories – three shields and a motor carrier – can be integrated into battery-powered IoT applications in industrial automation, environmental monitoring, agriculture, tracking and energy monitoring projects. The ENV Shield, RGB Shield and Therm Shield have a standard, modular design and are ...

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Mouser adds Optiga Trust X to secure hardware

To secure the IoT, smart homes, medical devices and drones, Infineon’s Optiga Trust X supports a high-speed I²C communication interface up to 1MHz. Typical current consumption is 20mA, which drops to 70µA in sleep mode.  The elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) NIST P256, AES128 and SHA-256 has built-in tamper-proof non volatile memory to enhance system security. ...

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Programmable connectors are environmentally sealed

Bulgin’s 4000 series of environmentally sealed circular connectors are now available in a ‘smart’ variant from RS Components. They include a programmable memory for data monitoring and IoT applications. Programmability and over the air updates are via an integrated EEPROM. The connector is not designed to read data output from a sensor, only to identify issues ...

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DC/DC converters offer choice of bipolar outputs

Dual-output isolated DC-DC converters in the R1DX series by Recom offer a choice of ±5V, ±9V, ±12V or ±15V bipolar outputs. The converters are now available from  Dengrove Electronic Components. The open-frame, surface-mount power modules measure 15.2mm x 10.7mm and are 8.0mm high and capable of driving capacitive loads of up to 1000µF. Their size and capacitance ...

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