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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 ...

Rebeca Obregon is to be the president of Farnell from the first of July. Farnell is a subsidiary of Avnet. “Since joining Avnet’s leadership team last year, Rebeca has shown her commitment to delivering results,” said Phil Gallagher, CEO, Avnet. “Farnell remains a critical part of Avnet’s proposition, and I’m confident that Rebeca is the right leader to steer the ...

Farnell is calling for its customers to help benchmark and improve its future services delivered to them by participating in its first ever Buyers’ Survey. The survey, which closes at the beginning of July, is designed to help the industry fully understand what matters most to buyers and identify trends that influence purchasing decisions across the engineering and electronics industry. ...

The plethora of off-the-shelf boards available for development and production can make a bewildering choice. Engineers need to bear a number of criteria in mind, advises Simon Wade. There are many choices facing embedded systems developers who want to use off-the-shelf boards for development and production. There are numerous offerings based around the Arm architecture alone. The open licensing policy ...

Farnell is to stock a range of 3D printing filamants under its Multicomp Pro brand, aiming at “design engineers, creators and hobbyists”, it said. “As interest and demand in 3D printing continues to grow, we are happy to provide our customers with a diversified line-up of 3D printer filaments that are designed to meet the quality standards engineers require,” added ...

Farnell has signed a global distribution agreement with Alliance Memory, bringing a significant new supplier to Farnell’s semiconductor portfolio. The complete range of Alliance Memory’s SRAM, DRAM, embedded multi-media card (eMMC), and flash memory ICs will now be available  from Farnell. “This welcome introduction of Alliance Memory’s extensive memory solutions to our global line card will help our customers worldwide ...

Component distributor Farnell has added industrial single-board computers to it line card in EMEA (Europe and Middle East). “Over the coming months, Farnell plans to broaden this selection globally with focus on product breadth and expanding into other regions,” according to Farnell. “Advantech constantly reflects and introduces models,” said Advantech director of alliances Alexandre Caghassi. “The purpose of our partnership ...

Farnell has announced a distribution agreement with Taoglas, a provider of antennas and IoT components. This partnership will help Farnell offer customers an expanded RF and wireless product offering. Farnell and their global brands, Newark and element14 are focused on simplifying the customer design process with small quantities for prototyping to production, 1–2-day shipping, and dedicated sets of product knowledge. ...

Farnell has signed a deal to distribute Seeed Studio products. “California-based Seeed Studio is an IoT technology company which specialises in hardware research, production and sales for edge computing, network communication and smart sensing applications,” according to Farnell. “Farnell customers will benefit from flexible customisation options and low minimum order quantity (MOQ) requirements.” Products include the Nvidia Jetson based reComputer, ...

Analog Devices has created a pair of 6A buck-boost converters for automotive use. “MAX25239 and MAX25240 small-footprint 2V to 36V converters are the industry’s only 6A automotive buck-boost with integrated H-bridge switches,” according to distributor Farnell, which is stocking the parts. “They provide a fixed-output regulation voltage and an externally adjustable output voltage from 3V to 20V.” The ‘and’ in ...