June 2011 Archives

Avnet Embedded are partnering with Microsoft gold partner Direct Insight to offer a Windows Embedded Standard 7 one-day course.

It will take place on Wednesday 6th July at the Avnet Abacus offices in Newbury.

The aim of the course is to demonstrate how to create and deploy a Standard 7 platform.

Interactive hands-on labs will be used to introduce the development and deployment tool flow.

"The course is ideal for those considering Windows Embedded Standard 7 and needing to understand the product in technical detail," said the companies. 

The one day course covers four modules:

• The features of Windows Embedded Standard 7
• Windows Embedded Standard 7 application development
• Advanced Image creation with the Image Configuration Editor (ICE)
• More on Embedded Enabling Features
 
Date: Wednesday 6th July 2011

Avnet Abacus
Abacus House
Bone Lane
Newbury
RG14 5SF

Click here to register

Digi-Key has signed a global distribution deal with Swissbit, a supplier of DRAM and flash storage devices.

Avnet Memec will sell the antenna products of Smarteq in Europe following a distribution agreement.

IDT has named Future Electronics as its top-performing distributor in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.

The analogue and mixed-signal chip supplier pointed to the distributor's European network of field applications engineers which are backed by Future's systems design centre in Egham, UK.

"Future Electronics is particularly to be congratulated on its support for new, high-technology parts in IDT's portfolio, since it only gained the full IDT franchise in 2010," said Paolo Scarpa, IDT's European distribution manager.

IDT also presented its demand creation award for 2010/11 to Future Electronics' Stockholm, Sweden branch.

America II Electronics has signed an authorised distribution agreement with memory chip manufacturer AMIC Technology.

TTI now has a military/aerospace connector assembly facility which is QPL-approved to build Amphenol 38999 connectors in Europe.

Farnell continues to develop its idea of creating an online community of designers, all hooked into its element14 websites.

The latest step is a website called, element14 knode, which the distributor hopes will give engineers an internet-based route to a range of design tools, intellectual property, reference designs as well as components and hardware.

Acal has reported a big increase in sales revenues for the year ended 31 March 2011.

At £265m, revenues for the distribution and services group increased by 46% on 2009.