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New specialist distributor offers high integrity component sourcing, testing counterfeit detection & verification
Vigilant Components is a new independent electronic component distributor, established by experienced component specialists. Part of the £30m Paragon Electronics group, Vigilant provides component sourcing, testing, counterfeit detection and verification services plus supply chain management and point-of-use delivery options for the electronics manufacturing sector.

Toshiba’s Capricorn family ships more than 5 million units
Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced that sales of its Capricorn family of intelligent display controllers have exceeded 5 million units since they began shipping in 2005. The Capricorn family, comprising Capricorn-2, -M, -A and –F variants, has been widely adopted by automotive manufacturers in a broad variety of models.

Visit Samtec at DesignCon 2012, Booth 215 to learn more about SI Fusion where signal integrity products, services, and tools intersect.
Samtec's product offering has expanded to include optical engine design and manufacturing with in house fiber cable bundling and connector assembly. Active Optical Cables, Jumpers, and Engines are available for QSFP+ and PCIe® Gen 1, 2, and 3 applications with advanced engineering support and full in house signal integrity support.

ON Semiconductor Receives Trusted Foundry and Broker Accreditations
ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a premier supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics, has been granted Category 1A Trusted Foundry accreditation for its Pocatello, Idaho, ‘Fab 10’, and Gresham, Oregon, facilities.

Avnet Memec Showcases Silicon and Solutions for Industry, Smarter Energy, and End-user Technology at Embedded World 2012
Avnet Memec is committing its booth at Embedded World 2012 to demonstrating new solutions for smart innovation from the world’s best semiconductor companies. “Electronic technologies hold the key to progress by innovating and by managing precious resources efficiently; it is vital for today’s engineers to find out how to harness the latest advances,” explained Rainer Maier, Technical Sales Manager at Avnet Memec.

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Maxim Introduces TINI® Family of Highly Integrated Solutions for the Consumer Market
Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM) today announced its TINI family of highly integrated SoCs and codecs for consumer applications. Offering unparalleled functional integration, TINI products enable system designers to free board space for new differentiating features in smartphones, tablet PCs, smart TVs, and home-monitoring cameras.

X-REL Semiconductor launches new products: a Versatile Timers Family and a Power MOSFET Family
Following the announcement of its XTRM products family (-60°C to +230°C) of high-temperature and extreme reliability electronics components, X-REL is proud to announce the availability of five new products belonging to two product families:

NMB Introduces a New Standard in LED Programmable Dimmable Drivers
Designed with a programmable function, NMB’s new LED driver offers high efficiency, 10W to 20W power rating, and a 0 to 10W voltage dimming function.

Small footprint, low profile wirewound power inductors from TTI, Inc.
TTI, Inc., the global distributor of Passive, Interconnect, Relay & Switch and Discrete components, has announced two additions to Murata’s LQH series of wirewound power inductors that feature low profile, improved current saturation and low DC resistance.

PowerLock Box™ from ITT ICS offers fast emergency power supply connection to keep supermarkets open in power outages
The VEAM PowerLock Box™ from leading global connector manufacturer and supplier ITT Interconnect Solutions enables emergency power to be quickly and safely re-connected to large facilities such as supermarkets, defence installations, factories, hospitals and offices in the event of failure of the mains supply.

Technical Article

Testing mobile phones efficiently
Hundreds of mobile phones are returned to shops every day because the customer thinks the phone is broken, especially during the warranty period. But how does the shop or a service centre find out if it is really defective or just not operated correctly?

 
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Designing battery-powered equipment with low leakage Tantalum and NbO capacitors
Leakage current (DCL) is an effect common to all capacitors and its value and behavior under varying electrical and environmental conditions are related to the capacitor technology used. The leakage current in tantalum and niobium oxide capacitors consists of the dielectric absorption current and th

 
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Re-tinning New Components for Electronics Assembly: Why It’s Done
There are a number of good reasons why one might have to re-tin components from the stockroom prior to assembly. For example, let’s say that I'm building a hi-rel assembly that's put together using traditional lead-bearing Sn63 alloy. Unfortunately, one of the components that I need to use in that a