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.”

Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced its global distribution agreement with Monolithic Power Systems (MPS), a leading fabless manufacturer of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors.

The new distribution agreement between Mouser and MPS expands Mouser’s line card of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor offerings to design engineers and buyers. MPS produces power management integrated circuits (ICs) for DC to DC converters, LED drivers, backlight controllers, Class-D audio amplifiers and other linear ICs. The company’s expertise in analog design and their experience in IC manufacturing processes allow Mouser to supply its customers worldwide with new options in high-performance, energy efficient and cost-effective analog solutions.
“We are very pleased to bring MPS on board, giving design engineers across the globe quick access to their high-performance analog products,” says Mike Scott, Mouser Vice President of Semiconductors. “We look forward to a successful partnership together.”

“Mouser is a trusted global distributor with a solid focus on design engineers as well as technical purchasing representatives. Partnering with Mouser enables MPS to get our newest products into the hands of hardware designers around the world,” says Pete Klessel, MPS Sr. Director of Sales.

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 the latest, most technologically advanced components for their 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 announced it has stock available for immediate purchase of the BeagleBoard’s BeagleBone Community Development Board.

The highly sought-after BeagleBone Community Development Board delivers the bare bones with the greatest access to interface signals for sensors and controls, while eliminating the need for additional equipment with a single cable development environment. Intended to work stand alone or in conjunction with existing BeagleBoard and BeagleBoard-xM, the BeagleBone Community Development Board is targeted at application developers enabling easy access to industry standard I/O’s. BeagleBone features the TI AM3359 processor, a 700MHz ARM Cortex™-A8, 256-MB RAM, and a USB 2.0 port with the ability to supply power. BeagleBone and BeagleBoard-xM are ideal for such applications as 3D printers and industrial robotics, web servers and Internet-enabled kiosks, in-vehicle entertainment, and home media centers. To learn more, visit http://www.mouser.com/beaglebone/

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 announced it is stocking components in support of the Wireless Power Consortium’s Qi (pronounced “chee”) global standards for interoperability between wireless power transmitters and wireless power receivers. The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), consisting of 100 international, leading wireless technology companies, is dedicated to promoting wireless charging stations that are compatible across different companies and countries.

Mouser is stocking new components that meet the new Qi standard.
Texas Instruments’ BQ500110 / BQ500210 Wireless Power Transmitter Managers
Integrate the logic functions required to control wireless power transfer
Single channel WPC compliant contactless charging base station
TI’s BQ51011 Gen 2 Wireless Power Receiver
Provides AC/DC power conversion while integrating the digital control required to comply with the WPC v1.0 communication protocol

These transmitters and receivers are designed for devices such as cell phones, smart phones, headsets, digital cameras, portable media players and hand-held devices. Both the TI transmitter and receiver are supported by robust development tools.
TI’s bqTESLA150LP Evaluation Kit
Low power wireless development kit
Includes transmitter with a Qi-compliant controller and a Qi-compliant receiver IC
Vishay’s IWAS Series Wireless Charging Receiving Coil/Shield
First commercial Qi-compliant wireless receiver coil available
Incorporated into the Texas Instrument’s bq51013EVM-725
High permeability shielding, blocks charging flux from sensitive components or batteries

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 announced the availability of Murata’s AMR (Anisotropic Magneto Resistance) Magnetic Switch Sensors. These robust switch sensors, which are being featured by Murata at this week’s CES event in Las Vegas, set a new standard for reliability, sensitivity, and detection area.

Murata’s AMR Magnetic Switch Sensors are non-contact magnetic sensors of high sensitivity for use in a relatively low magnetic field in either a vertical or horizontal direction. With no mechanical components, AMR sensors are more reliable and robust than Hall Effect IC’s or reed switches. Murata’s AMR Sensors are ideal for open/close applications such as mobile phones and notebook PC’s, as well as in consumer white goods, industrial and security equipment. A wide range of sensitivities are available.

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. has announced it is stocking the Freescale Semiconductor 32-bit Kinetis Cortex™-M4 microcontroller family. Freescale is one of the first companies to introduce production M4 products.

The ARM® Cortex™-M4 processor is the latest embedded processor by ARM specifically developed to address digital signal control markets that demand an efficient, easy-to-use blend of control and signal processing capabilities. Combined high-performance, low-power and low-cost, the Cortex-M4 family is ideal for motor control, automotive, power management, embedded audio, and industrial automation markets.

Freescale Semiconductor 32-bit Kinetis microcontrollers represent the most scalable portfolio of ARM® Cortex™-M4 MCUs in the industry. The Kinetis product line consists of five MCU families with more than 200 pin-, peripheral-, and software-compatible devices with outstanding performance and feature scalability. Also available is a suite of development tools, including controller boards for Freescale’s Tower System and evaluation kits, as well as software tools from Keil and Micrium to enable rapid development of new Cortex M4-based systems.
To learn more, visit http://www.mouser.com/freescalekinetis/.

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 announced the signing of a global distribution agreement with Micrium. Micrium stands as a global RTOS leader and their products are a leading choice among embedded engineers serving medical, military and aerospace, industrial, consumer and telecom, plus other embedded design applications.

The new agreement between Mouser and Micrium is effective immediately and involves the global distribution of Micrium’s complete portfolio of RTOS, protocol stack and utility products, and development tools for embedded systems. Micrium’s flagship uC/OS family delivers engineers building microprocessor, microcontroller, and DSP-based devices outstanding reliability, performance, dependability, sound source code, and vast documentation. Going forward, Mouser gives customers across the map another channel for purchasing Micrium products and for obtaining localized embedded technical design support.

“This global distribution agreement with Micrium falls right in line with our business strategy to enhance Mouser’s value proposition by expanding our line card of leading technology suppliers as we aim to satisfy our customers’ design needs,” says Russell Rasor, Mouser Vice President of Advanced Technologies. “We are excited to be able to offer Micrium’s comprehensive development software to our customers in order to improve their speed-to-market. We look forward to a beneficial partnership.”
“We are extremely pleased to be working in partnership with Mouser, a leading distributor focused on supporting the many product needs of design engineers and buyers in the design stage,” expresses Jean Labrosse, President and CEO of Micrium. “We are impressed with the commitment Mouser brings to the table when it comes to satisfying the ever-evolving requirements of design engineers in embedded design.”

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Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced an exclusive global distribution partnership with Azoteq, a world leader in proximity and touch solutions designed to supplant costlier sensor, switch, slider, scroll wheel and touch interface design options in consumer, medical and industrial applications.

Design engineers and buyers across the globe will now have access to Azoteq’s ProxSense® proximity and touch sensor controllers. The ProxSense family of capacitive sensors consists of the most sensitive and robust proximity and touch controllers available for use in touch keys, non-ITO LCD, single layer ITO, 3D touch screens, and metal touch panel markets.

“We are excited to be representing Azoteq globally,” comments Mike Scott, Mouser Vice President of Semiconductors. “Engineers will appreciate the auto tuning and drift compensation features of the products that can enable greater success with new designs. As designs are more frequently incorporating the sense of touch, this new agreement allows Mouser to provide Azoteq’s innovative solutions to our vast design engineer and buyer customer base.”

Kobus Marneweck, Vice President of Marketing at Azoteq, went on to state, “a key to this agreement is Mouser’s dedicated focus on the design chain and their proven demand creation capabilities. Their local branch offices worldwide, being committed to providing engineers with technical support and rapid new product introductions, made it an easy business decision. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial partnership.”

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 announced that it has finalized an exclusive international distribution agreement with Rowley Associates, a premier developer of integrated development environments for microcontrollers.

For Mouser customers looking for an exceptional integrated microcontroller development environment, Rowley’s CrossWorks system represents the best. CrossWorks for ARM is a complete C/C++ and assembly code development system for ARM7, ARM9, XScale, and Cortex-M3 microcontrollers. It features the CrossStudio Integrated Development Environment, C/C++ and Assembler toolchain, CrossWorks C Library designed for embedded processor applications, and the CrossWorks Tasking Library, a multi-priority, pre-emptive, task switching and synchronization facility. CrossWorks for the Texas Instruments MSP430 and Atmel AVR microcontrollers will also be available through Mouser, as well as the CrossConnect JTAG adapter for ARM.

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 the latest, most technologically advanced components for their 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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Toumaz, the leading provider of ultra-low energy wireless telemetry technologies for consumer, industrial and internet-connected devices, today announces that its TELRAN products are now set to be available via Mouser’s extensive global network.

With the global distribution agreement in place, Mouser will support its customers with Toumaz’s Ultra Low Energy Wireless technologies and products from the TELRAN family including the TZ1053 device, the associated TELRAN Development Kit (TDK) and production RF Modules. TELRAN is an ultra-low energy radio solution for wireless sensor networks, remote controls, green energy solutions, smart meters and environmental monitoring. The TZ1053 high-performance sub-1GHz radio SoC offers operation down to 1V using a single button cell battery or harvested energy sources and draws less than 3mW continuous use power consumption.

“We’ve seen a lot of interest in our TELRAN range of products so we’re really glad to be making them available worldwide now through Mouser’s extensive global network,” said Professor Chris Toumazou, Co-Founder and CEO of Toumaz. “Mouser’s reputation for reliability, wide product range, superior customer support and innovation around new technologies such as the TZ1053 is something we value very highly. This partnership is a key stepping stone on the path to enabling easy access to Toumaz’s technology for our mutual customers.”

“Toumaz’s ambition to push the limits of ultra-low energy technologies makes them exactly the type of partner we look for,” says Russell Rasor, Mouser’s Vice President of Advanced Technology. “Our customers rely on us to provide the widest, most advanced selection of electronic components on the market today and with Toumaz’s line of ultra-low energy wireless products, we have continued to provide just that.”

TZ1053 TELRAN silicon devices, 868MHz and 915MHz versions of the TZ1053 TELRAN RF Modules and supporting TDKs are available to order from Mouser with immediate effect.

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