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DigiKey’s Back2School Prize Giveaway gives students a chance to win store credit towards building their own electronic projects. Note that the “Back to College” promotion is open to any student with a university or college email address. It runs until 18 October and winners will be announced in November. There are nine prizes up for grabs, and the winners will ...

Mouser and Altium LLC are partnering to support electronics education and careers worldwide. The collaboration seeks to empower the next generation of electronic design engineers by providing expanded access to state-of-the-art design tools and resources. The Altium Educator Centre, a hub for innovative teaching and learning in electronics design and PCB development, together with the Student Lab, provides a programme ...

Distributor Rutronik has added three surface-mount RTK-enhanced GNSS modules from Unicore to its portfolio. RTK – ‘real time kinematics’ – is a service that increases the accuracy of satellite navigation systems. UM982 GPS L1/L2/L5 BDS B1I/B2I/B3I GLONASS G1/G2 Galileo E1/E5a/E5b QZSS L1/L2/L5 SBAS 16 x 21 x 2.6mm UM980 BDS B1I/B2I/B3I/B1C/B2a/B2b GPS L1/L2/L5 GLONASS L1/L2 Galileo E1/E5a/E5b QZSS L1/L2/L5 SBAS ...

Farnell is now shipping the new high-power SPDT (Single-Pole Double-Throw) RF antenna switch from Toshiba. The SPDT RF (TCWA1225G) switch is important for the expansion of 5G networks. This is because the expansion requires antennae that are increasingly composed of complex signal transmission paths that need RF switching with low insertion loss and high input power, but in a compact ...

Farnell is now offering the tiny, fast, and versatile Raspberry Pi Pico 2 which retains the footprint of the original Pico, while benefiting from the performance uplift delivered by the RP2350 microcontroller, designed by Raspberry Pi. When compared to its predecessor, the RP2040 microcontroller launched in 2021, RP2350 offers a 150MHz system clock (versus 133MHz); dual Arm Cortex-M33 cores (versus ...

DigiKey has announced a significant expansion of its portfolio in 2024, adding 340,000 new stocking parts year-to-date, including nearly 90,000 newly introduced product SKUs. This includes the addition of 150 new suppliers, across its core business, DigiKey Marketplace, and the Fulfilled by DigiKey programme. Key suppliers added in the first half of 2024, highlighted by the company, include AEM, FLEXEMATIC, ...

Distributor Avnet has introduced the Tria brand for its embedded computing products (computer on modules, boards and systems). It has also announced the Tria Technologies business group which will also include its compute design and manufacturing capabilities. Tria Technologies will support OEMs with design either from scratch or using off-the-shelf products and will also make custom designs. Tria will be ...

Three bench oscilloscopes by Siglent, the SDS800X HD, SDS1000X HD and SDS3000X HD are now available from Telonic Instruments. The high-resolution oscilloscopes address signal fidelity, visualisation, and analysis with 12-bit ADCs, low noise, gain accuracy, and channel isolation, said the company. Bandwidths range from 70MHz to 4GHz, providing signal fidelity for a range of applications including power, EMI, frequency analysis, ...

DigiKey is partnering with memory manufacturer Kingston Technology to distribute its memory and storage systems globally. Kingston options including eMMC, eMCP, ePoP, UFS and DRAM components for industrial and embedded OEM customers. The company also provides an industrial SSD line of SATA and NVMe solid state drives (SSDs). These are created for system designers and builders. End user applications cover ...

Component distributor Richardson RFPD is stocking a 5 to 8GHz GaAs pHEMT low noise linear amplifier from Guerrilla RF, and has added it to its design support service. Measuring 1.5 x 1.5mm (DFN-6), GRF2110 is aimed at WiFi 6/6E, small cell and wireless infrastructure. It operates from 2.7 to 6V, drawing 70mA at 5V. Power is applied to the output ...