Press Releases – Woodstock Wire

Designers in the UK and Northern Europe to benefit

Arrow Electronics UK has announced a distribution agreement with Lightech, a global supplier of state-of-the-art electronic power supplies for the lighting industry. Lightech’s in-house expertise has resulted in many patents and the company has become an integral part in the development process for new lighting systems.
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Company Honored for Significant Contributions to GM’s Global Product and Performance Achievements.

St. Louis, Missouri, USA – June 23, 2009 – Laird Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the design and supply of customized performance-critical components and systems for advanced electronics and wireless products, today announced it was named General Motors 2008 Supplier of the Year for the fourth consecutive year. The company received the award for its significant contributions to GM’s global product and performance achievements at the 17th Annual “Best of the Best” Ceremonies Friday, June 5, 2009, at the GM Heritage Center in Warren, Michigan.
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New nano FPGAs raise the bar on performance, price, size, power consumption

Mansfield, Texas, USA – June 24, 2009 – Mouser Electronics, Inc., known for its rapid introduction of the newest products, today announced it is the first catalog distributor to stock Actel’s IGLOO® nano FPGAs and ProASIC®3 nano FPGAs. Actel is the leading manufacturer of nonvolatile, low-power programmable technologies at both the chip and system level, and a world leader in flash-based FPGAs.
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Fort Worth, Texas – Allied Electronics is now stocking Tektronix MSO3000 Series mixed signal oscilloscopes, designed to deliver the right combination of price and performance to debug embedded system designs.

The new MSO3000 Series provides the embedded system designer with the ability to visualize and analyze analog, digital and serial signals on a single instrument. The MSO3000 Series offers up to four analog and 16 digital channels, 100 to 500 MHz bandwidth, 5M record length and 2.5 GS/s analog sample rate for system debug.

“With the addition of the MSO3000 Series to our product portfolio, Allied now offers Tektronix’s complete range of performance options from 100MHz to 1GHz, enabling design engineers to simplify and speed debugging of complex embedded systems,” said Scott McLendon, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Allied. “Engineers can count on Allied to carry the latest Tektronix test and measurement products.”

For more information, contact a local Allied representative at 1.800.433.5700 or visit http://www.alliedelec.com.

About Allied Electronics

Allied Electronics’ headquarters are located in Fort Worth, Texas with 55 sales branches across the United States and Canada. Allied is a subsidiary of Electrocomponents plc (LSE: ECM), the world leading catalog component distributor. Electrocomponents has operations in six continents and headquarters in Oxford, England. www.alliedelec.com.

About Tektronix

Tektronix is a leading supplier of test, measurement, and monitoring products, solutions and services for the communications, computer, and semiconductor industries – as well as military/aerospace, consumer electronics, education and a broad range of other industries worldwide. With 60 years of experience, Tektronix enables its customers to design, build, deploy, and manage next-generation global communications networks, computing and advanced technologies. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix has operations in 19 countries worldwide. www.tektronix.com.

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Extensive searchable directory provides essential frequency control product design service to website

Costa Mesa, CA – Ecliptek Corporation, a leading manufacturer of crystals and oscillators for over 22 years, has introduced its latest web based engineering tool, an indexed directory correlating chipsets to suggested Ecliptek frequency control products. This comprehensive chipset reference index addresses a need identified by design engineers for specific crystal or oscillator recommendations based on parameters pertaining to a manufacturer’s chipset number.
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Award based on Supply Capacity, Technical Support, Logistic Supply and Reputation

Mansfield, Texas, USA – June 24, 2009 – Mouser Electronics, Inc., known for its rapid introduction of the newest products, today announced it received China’s 2009 Most Preferred Catalog Distributor Award from Global Sources. The award was presented after completion of the Global Sources annual customer preference survey conducted by Electronics Supply & Manufacturing, China (ESMC).
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New Online Software Quickly Defines and Optimizes LED System Solution & Payback

MONTREAL, QUEBEC (June 25, 2009) – Future Lighting Solutions today announced the release of SSL Designer, the first online design tool for solid-state lighting applications that combines the ability to set and optimize design parameters based on target specifications with the ability to calculate system costs and payback schedules. The new software – intended as the starting point for developing LED systems – facilitates and accelerates engineering design decisions as well as managing the tradeoffs between performance and costs.
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