Mouser Electronics, Inc., today announced immediate availability of newest DC motor control solutions from Texas Instruments.

The TI DRV8843 is a dual H-bridge driver capable of driving two DC motors or one stepper motor. The output block of each driver consists of n-channel power MOSFETs configured as H-bridges that are able to supply up to 2.5A peak or 1.75A RMS output current. The DRV8843 is available in a thermally enhanced 28-pin HTSSOP package and is ideal for applications such as robotics, factory automation, and office machines.

The combination of Texas Instruments and National has created an exciting, flexible solution for the control of brushless DC motors. This “winning combo” provides programmable processing to support varying drive profiles and configurations with differences in range, acceleration, and torque. Both single- and three-phase motors can be controlled, as well as applications with and without sensors. Four components comprise the solution: the LM5101B MOSFET driver, the LM3S8971 Stellaris motor controller, the AMC1200 isolation amplifier, and the DRV8312 motor driver.

Design of a new motor control system can be a daunting task. Using many of the same products found in their winning combo solution, TI has created the DK-LM3S-DRV8312 Motor Control Kit to help engineers speed time to market. The kit is designed to spin 3-phase brushless DC motors showing the operational advantages of TI’s InstaSPIN BLDC control solution such as simplified tuning, immediate acceleration, and reliable low-speed operation. The brains of the kit are an LM3S818 MCU on a controlCARD module that is pre-programmed with all the necessary firmware. Also included is the Crosshairs embedded kernel and corresponding PC application interface that enables the engineer to control and monitor the entire system.

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Mouser Electronics, Inc., today announced it will be exhibiting at The South Africa Embedded and Electronics Industry Trade Show on March 13-14 at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg, South Africa.

National Electronics Week: South Africa 2012 (NEW), supported by ADEC, The SMART Group and the leading South African and global trade press is an exhibition devoted to the electronics world and focuses on LEDs, wireless communication, design tools and more. The event offers free seminars, conferences and workshops from distributors all around the world showcasing their newest products. NEW started in 2010 and last year sold out with over 1,700 visitors, and this year’s event is expected to be even bigger and better. Mouser’s attendance at the event underscores its commitment to serving the world’s top design engineers with the highest degree of customer service and technical support. Mouser will be exhibiting at Booth C10 and will showcase a long line of new technologies with its co-exhibitor and parent company, TTI, Inc.

“Mouser is excited to exhibit its latest technologies in Johannesburg for the first time,” says Mark Burr-Lonnon, Mouser Vice President of EMEA Business. “Such an exciting and informative event is a great opportunity to show South Africa what we have to offer with our broad inventory, speed-to-market advantage and leading-edge technology.’’

With its broad product line and unsurpassed customer service, Mouser caters to design engineers and buyers by delivering What’s Next in advanced technologies. Mouser offers customers 19 global support locations and stocks the world’s widest selection of the latest semiconductors and electronic components for the newest design projects. Mouser Electronics’ website is updated daily and searches more than 8.7 million products to locate over 2.8 million orderable part numbers available for easy online purchase. Mouser.com also houses an industry-first interactive catalog, data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, technical design information, and engineering tools.

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Mouser Electronics, Inc., today announced it will become a primary sponsor of the No. 11 Mouser Electronics/GEICO/KV Racing Technology Chevrolet/Firestone car driven by IndyCar Champion Tony Kanaan for five key events including the 2012 Indianapolis 500.

Kanaan brings a proven track record to IndyCar racing. In 2003, Michael Andretti selected Kanaan to take his driver’s seat. He didn’t disappoint, posting one victory, nine top-five and 12 top-10 finishes in 16 races. 2004 was even more spectacular. He became the first driver in major auto racing history to finish every lap of every race for an entire season on his way to driving away with the 2004 IndyCar Series title. To date, he has captured 14 victories and 14 poles in addition to his championship run in 2004.

“It’s his undeniable skill behind the wheel and his experience as a brand ambassador of motorsports that made the selection for Mouser an easy one,” says Larry Johannes, Mouser Vice President of Strategic Marketing. “Last year, Mouser attached its name to the high-speed, high-tech world of IndyCar as an innovative way to promote our supplier partners and gain brand exposure as we continue to expand our operations worldwide. Since every advanced, sophisticated component that’s built to go inside an IndyCar is about state-of-the-art engineering and delivering a performance edge on the track, IndyCar is a natural fit. IndyCar provides us the perfect vehicle to build top-of-mind awareness for Mouser and our valued supplier and manufacturer rep partnerships. ”

Joining Mouser as co-sponsors are TTI, Inc, Murata, Molex, TE Connectivity, Phoenix Contact, Littelfuse, Kemet, Ohmite, Hammond, Harwin, Digi, ebm-papst, Omron, BIVAR, Fluke, and Amphenol.

For the upcoming Izod® IndyCar Series in 2012, Kanaan and the KV Racing Technology team will welcome the new IndyCar chassis and engine package. The team’s IndyCar will be powered by Chevrolet’s fantastic new Twin-Turbocharged Indy V6; its chassis is designed and built by Dallara, its tires are from Firestone, and its host of advanced electronics needs is supplied by Mouser.

“There’s no better feeling than having a solid company behind you – the kind of excitement for motorsports we share with Mouser makes it a great experience,” says Tony Kanaan, who in 2011 finished in the top-five in the overall IndyCar Series standings. “When Jimmy (Vasser) and I were taking a tour of their facilities and saw all the products that they potentially supply to the sport of IndyCar, we were extremely impressed. Mouser is a great partner for us; we are going to work harder than ever to make this a winning partnership on and off the racetrack.”

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Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, launched a new Product Knowledge Center (PKC) training site on Mouser.com covering the entire lighting ecosystem.

The new site is completely redesigned to help design engineers find the latest lighting advancements, trends and supporting product information in as few clicks as possible. The new site complements Mouser’s broad line card, which includes Cree, Avago Technologies, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, Maxim Integrated Products, and other top suppliers of LEDs, drivers, lenses, connectors, circuit protection, and thermal protection.

Kevin Hess, Mouser Vice President of Technical Marketing, sheds light on the overall site design. “Ultimately, we wanted to create a new PKC interface that was intuitive enough for design engineers to navigate without having to experience any learning curve, allowing them to find the exact information they need even faster. At Mouser, we realize the one component that’s always in short supply is time, and that’s exactly what our newest PKC delivers – a quicker, in-depth, more user-friendly lighting resource.”

Mouser’s lighting PKC application training site is a comprehensive resource center spanning three areas: products, applications and design engineering resources. The Lighting Product Selector Guide is arranged into five main product categories with a graphical interface to speed navigation. Engineers can quickly narrow in on a set of products based on defined parameters/engineering standards geared to their specific design needs. To experience this new graphical interface, visit http://www.mouser.com/lighting.

The Applications Guide assists design engineers in finding products tailored for a particular end equipment lighting application such as high bay lighting or MR16 replacement. This guide navigates by block diagram, which provides a higher system level view. In addition, the site features a Resource Guide – containing videos, selection guides, white papers, application notes, key industry trends, plus other helpful design sources to help fast track the overall design process.

Arranged neatly into defined categories, information can be quickly referenced by supplier or topic. All in all, design engineers can have confidence knowing the site is constantly being updated and refined as lighting technology moves further and further away from the Edison bulb.

With its broad product line and unsurpassed customer service, Mouser caters to design engineers and buyers by delivering What’s Next in advanced technologies. Mouser offers customers 19 global support locations and stocks the world’s widest selection of the latest semiconductors and electronic components for the newest design projects. Mouser Electronics’ website is updated daily and searches more than 8 million products to locate over 2 million orderable part numbers available for easy online purchase. Mouser.com also houses an industry-first interactive catalog, data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, technical design information, and engineering tools.

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Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announces its all-new Bill of Materials (BOM) Tool on its award-winning website Mouser.com. This innovative BOM Tool transforms customers’ imported bill of materials into an industry-leading part research and purchasing platform.

Mouser’s new BOM Management Tool is available to anyone with a My Mouser Account, enabling users to import a new BOM or view BOMs saved in their account. “Our goal was to build the most intelligent Bill-of-Materials tool for our industry, making the materials management process less burdensome for engineers and buyers,” explains Hayne Shumate, Mouser Vice President, Internet Business. “It remembers not just your preferences, but the layout of your spreadsheets, your naming conventions, and the product selections you have made previously. Instead of only matching exact manufacturer’s part numbers, it can analyze partial part numbers and descriptions using a relevancy engine so that the best options can be offered.” Currently, other industry BOM tools come up short by showing no results were found.

Unlike tools on other sites, engineers and buyers can choose what product data they want in which columns and export everything into their original spreadsheet with their own custom formatting intact. Currency, formatting, RoHS options, and other preferences are remembered, allowing each user to create a truly personalized experience and speed their processing the next time. If a customer does not have a spreadsheet, they may paste data directly into the tool. Ultimately, customers will spend less time reformatting data and resetting preferences.
“Our newest BOM Import Tool is yet another way Mouser provides a speed-to-market advantage for design engineers,” adds Kevin Hess, Mouser Vice President of Technical Marketing. “Our business focus is on design engineers and buyers who want the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components to build their new designs. We’re always striving to identify new ways where Mouser can further streamline and simplify the design process by speeding the research and delivery of the newest products and advanced technologies. We are pleased to be able to offer this major upgrade.”

With its broad product line and unsurpassed customer service, Mouser caters to design engineers and buyers by delivering What’s Next in advanced technologies. Mouser offers customers 19 global support locations and stocks the world’s widest selection of the latest semiconductors and electronic components for the newest design projects. Mouser Electronics’ website is updated daily and
searches more than 8 million products to locate over 2 million orderable part numbers available for easy online purchase. Mouser.com also houses an industry-first interactive catalog, data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, technical design information, and engineering tools.

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Mouser Electronics, Inc. today announced that it is stocking the SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi CC3000 FRAM Evaluation Module Kit (EMK) (CC3000FRAMEMK) from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). The SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3000 FRAM EMK is a full turn-key TI Wi-Fi evaluation and demonstration tool for TI’s MSP430™ FRAM microcontrollers (MCU) and SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3000 solution, which allows developers to easily add Wi-Fi to low-cost embedded products. The SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3000 FRAM EMK comes with all the necessary hardware and software to get started quickly, and it includes an LS Research TiWi-SL Module and EM board, along with an MSP430 FRAM Experimenter Board.

TI’s SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3000 solution is a self-contained wireless offering that simplifies the process of implementing Internet connectivity on any microcontroller-based device. The SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3000 minimizes host MCU software requirements, making it the ideal solution for embedded applications using any low-cost/low-power MCU. TI’s SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3000 FRAM EMK allows users to take advantage of the latest-generation of MSP430 MCU devices with integrated FRAM.

With its broad product line and unsurpassed customer service, Mouser caters to design engineers and buyers by delivering “What’s Next” in advanced technologies. Mouser offers customers 19 global support locations and stocks the world’s widest selection of the latest semiconductors and electronic components for the newest design projects. Mouser Electronics’ website is updated daily and searches more than 8.7 million products to locate over 2.8 million orderable part numbers available for easy online purchase. Mouser.com also houses an industry-first interactive catalog, data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, technical design information and engineering tools.

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Mouser Electronics, Inc. today announced the availability of NXP Semiconductor’s LPC4300 Cortex™-M4 / M0 Dual-Core Microcontrollers.

NXP Semiconductors LPC4300 series microcontrollers (MCUs) boast the world’s first asymmetrical dual-core digital signal controller architecture, featuring ARM® Cortex™-M4 and Cortex-M0 processors. The NXP Cortex-M4 MCU with Cortex-M0 co-processor brings the advantage of developing digital signal processor (DSP) and MCU applications within a single architecture and development environment with features such as single cycle MAC, Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) techniques, saturating arithmetic, and a floating point unit.

The Cortex-M0 co-processor off-loads many of the data movement and I/O handling duties that can drain the bandwidth of the Cortex-M4 core. With its dual-core architecture and unique set of configurable peripherals, NXP Semiconductors LPC4300 MCUs enable development of a wide range of applications, such as embedded audio, motor control, power management, industrial automation, robotics, medical, and automotive accessories.

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Mouser Electronics, Inc. today announced it is offering a wide range of Panasonic Semiconductor LEDs, including through-hole, surface mount, and infrared LEDs.

Panasonic’s visible LEDs are available in through-hole or surface mount packages, in a wide variety of sizes. A broad spectrum of colors are available from red to ice blue, as well as white.

Panasonic’s GaAIAs Infrared LEDs offer high power output and high efficiency in either a T1 or
T1 ¾ transparent, epoxy resin package. With fast response times and high-speed modulation capabilities, these infrared LEDs are available in dominant wavelengths of 860nm and 880nm and in half-power angles of 15°, 20°, and 22°.

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Mouser Electronics, Inc. has announced a new partnership with Amphenol TCS, a leader in high-speed, high-density connection systems. Amphenol TCS designs integrated interconnect solutions for applications in the networking, communications, storage, and computer server markets.

This new accord will enable design engineers to achieve their performance targets by providing rapid access to Amphenol TCS’s extensive range of connector products with Mouser’s fast and convenient ordering capabilities and library of the latest product information and data. The product line includes a diverse range of high-speed backplane and mezzanine connectors including the InfinX and NeXLev families that are designed to meet the increasing bandwidth demands of parallel board to board interconnection. Capable of support 25+Gbps and 12.5Gbps respectively, the InfinX and NeXLev connectors are optimized for differential signalling and offer the reliability of BGA attachments.

“We’re pleased to have Amphenol TCS as a supplier partner,” says Krystal Jackson, Mouser’s Vice President of Interconnects. “With Amphenol’s focus on the latest communication protocols, our global customer base of design engineers will be able to find the connection solutions that they need for their newest designs.”

“Mouser’s fast and easy ordering process and global presence make them the premier partner for product distribution,” states Dave Castelli, product manager of Amphenol TCS. “With their dedication to customer service and product excellence, they distinguish themselves as the perfect fit for our own business strategy.”

With its broad product line and unsurpassed customer service, Mouser caters to design engineers and buyers by delivering What’s Next in advanced technologies. Mouser offers customers 19 global support locations and stocks the world’s widest selection of the latest semiconductors and electronic components for the newest design projects. Mouser Electronics’ website is updated daily and searches more than 8 million products to locate over 2 million orderable part numbers available for easy online purchase.

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ON Semiconductor has announced its top 2011 distribution partners. These awards honor the distributor in each region that led overall channel sales, grew market share, captured increased sales of products from acquisitions made by ON Semiconductor, and scored high on overall process excellence.

The 2011 awards are as follows:
• Arrow Electronics: Leading Distribution Partner for the Americas
• Arrow Electronics: Leading Distribution Partner for Europe
• Yosun: Leading Distribution Partner for China
• World Peace International: Leading Distribution Partner for Taiwan
• Uniquest: Leading Distribution Partner for Korea
• Arrow Electronics: Leading Distribution Partner for Southeast Asia
• Yosun: Leading Distribution Partner for India
• Mouser Electronics: Leading Global Distribution Partner for New Product Introduction

“Distribution sales accounted for approximately 36 percent of ON Semiconductor’s 2011 annual revenues and are expected to continue to grow,” said Jeff Thomson, vice president of Global Channel Sales for ON Semiconductor. “The ongoing market penetration and overall product revenue growth of the company continue to be highly dependent on the collaborative working relationships and unique channel sales programs we have fostered with our worldwide distribution partners. Each of the 2011 award winners successfully grew product sales, generated significant new business, and effectively supported both our customers’ needs and ON Semiconductor’s initiatives for operational excellence. ON Semiconductor is pleased to recognize these outstanding channel partners for their valuable contributions throughout 2011.”