Monthly Archives: November 2011

Toumaz provides wireless for biometric monitoring of troops

Toumaz’s Telran products are set to be integrated with Milgenco’s state of the art telemetry and DC power generation systems for defence customers in the UK, North America and Asia.

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Hitachi Displays add support for Southern European sales channel

Hitachi Europe’s Display Products Group has strengthened its sales management team to enable continued sales growth in Southern Europe. Vincent Levigoureux has been appointed to the position of Account Manager for France and Spain and will provide sales support to … Continue reading

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Powerstax’ medical PSUs meet latest approvals

Powerstax’ Medistax range of power supplies for medical applications has now been approved to the latest version of IEC 60601-1:2005, 3rd Edition. This is in addition to the existing approval to the 2nd Edition and ensures full medical approval is … Continue reading

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EDA Solutions appoints new sales manager for Northern Europe

EDA Solutions, sole representative in Europe for Tanner EDA and Incentia Design Systems, has appointed Steve Attfield as Sales Manager for Northern Europe, covering the UK, Benelux and the Nordic countries.

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Compact latching relays save energy compared to standard types

Switchtec’s latest latching relay, the SCLR2, requires only a short voltage pulse to change its state.  While normal relays require a constant voltage to be applied in the energised state, the SCLR2 simply holds its present state until pulsed again.  … Continue reading

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Single-chip MP3 Encoder/Decoder plays from CD-ROMs and USBs

Rohm recently announced the development of a USB audio decoder IC that enables audio playback of MP3 files from CD-ROM and USB memory using just a single chip, making it ideal for a variety of equipment, including AV receivers, radio … Continue reading

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Timers increase flexibility while reducing part number count

Finder has announced the introduction of a range of eight modular, 22.5mm wide rail-mounted timers designed to provide a complete range of timing functions, while keeping part number holdings to the absolute minimum.  The multi-voltage 83 Series of multi-function and … Continue reading

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Mouser to distribute CrossWorks software tools worldwide

Mouser has finalised an exclusive international distribution agreement with Rowley Associates, a premier developer of integrated development environments for microcontrollers. Located in Dursley, UK, Rowley is a developer of integrated development environments for microcontrollers, and creator of the CrossWorks development … Continue reading

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Piezoelectric buzzers also feature bright flashing LEDs

Avnet Abacus has announced two new piezoelectric buzzers from Kingstate Electronics via a Pan-European deal with the Taiwanese maker of piezo buzzers, magnetic buzzers, micro speakers, dynamic receivers, electret condenser microphones and earphones. Kingstate have 34 years manufacturing experience in … Continue reading

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Two-path diode power sensors offer cost-effective power measurements

Two new two-path diode power sensors from Rohde & Schwarz, the NRP-Z211 (up to 8 GHz) and R&S NRP-Z221 (up to 18 GHz), offer high measurement speed and accuracy for the price-sensitive production market.   

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