Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electromechanical and power distributors, has announced that it will make its debut at Embedded World in 2012, demonstrating embedded power solutions for diverse applications as Smart metering, LED lighting, energy harvesting, Information systems, digital imaging and wireless LAN systems. The company will also have CAN-bus interface and sensor products on display for the first time.

The emerging markets mentioned above require much more than single component approach. In solid state lighting, for example, it is important to support the LEDs with the latest, high reliability driver IC circuitry, passives and connectors in order to maximize the benefits of moving away from older, inefficient filament & fluorescent technology. Applications for energy harvesting, are so new that many approaches are currently under evaluation and designers need to see a complete systems picture before deciding on which technology is most appropriate.

Comments Alan Jermyn, VP European Marketing at Avnet Abacus: “We have paired exciting new, enabling technology from companies such as Cymbet and Enpirion with passive and electromechanical products from the industry’s leading names to ensure that designers looking to develop energy- and cost-efficient embedded systems can access a full package of parts designed to work perfectly together. Embedded World 2012 is the perfect opportunity for us to showcase our technical and applications capabilities, and we will also take the opportunity to feature products only recently launched.”

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 Avnet Abacus has received an award from Kingbright, the Taiwanese maker of LEDs and related lighting products for outstanding Sales Growth in 2010/2011.

Avnet Abacus is Kingbright’s largest Pan European distributor, holding extensive stocks of the LED company’s wide product range. Commented Alan Jermyn, Avnet Abacus’ VP European Marketing: “Avnet Abacus has sold Kingbright products for many years into the Industrial electronics market, this award recognizes not only our success but the suitability of Kingbright’s innovative portfolio of discrete LEDs, super-bright LEDs, displays sensors, clusters and light pipes.  Kingbright’s product portfolio complements our commodity passive component ranges“

Added Udo Reinhold, Managing Director, Kingbright Europe: “Avnet Abacus has the technical expertise to help designers maximise the benefits that our LED technology offers in terms of product range, power and cost savings as well as creativity in implementing new product designs.”

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Avnet Abacus has received an award from Kingbright, the Taiwanese maker of LEDs and related lighting products for outstanding Sales Growth in 2010/2011.
Avnet Abacus is Kingbright’s largest Pan European distributor, holding extensive stocks of the LED company’s wide product range. Commented Alan Jermyn, Avnet Abacus’ VP European Marketing: “Avnet Abacus has sold Kingbright products for many years into the Industrial electronics market, this award recognizes not only our success but the suitability of Kingbright’s innovative portfolio of discrete LEDs, super-bright LEDs, displays sensors, clusters and light pipes. Kingbright’s product portfolio complements our commodity passive component ranges“
Added Udo Reinhold, Managing Director, Kingbright Europe: “Avnet Abacus has the technical expertise to help designers maximise the benefits that our LED technology offers in terms of product range, power and cost savings as well as creativity in implementing new product designs.

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Murata has announced it has signed a Pan-European franchise agreement with Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electromechanical and power distributors. Covering Murata’s range of innovative passive products, the agreement builds on a 20-year relationship between the two companies. Previously, Avnet Abacus has covered selected European territories for Murata passives and has held a Pan-European agreement for the company’s power solutions products. This extended agreement further enhances Avnet Abacus’ position as a leading distributor of Murata products.

Avnet Abacus is particularly enthusiastic about introducing Murata’s innovative ceramic-based components to a wider European design engineering audience. Commented Alan Jermyn, VP European Marketing: “We recognise Murata’s global leadership in ceramic based electronic components. Our particular focus will be on the application and design in of new products such as SMD Pyroelectric Infra Red sensors, AMR Sensors, Microblower, timing devices & Metal T-cap ranges.”

Avnet Abacus, one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electromechanical and power distributors, has announced two new piezo electric buzzers from Kingstate Electronics Corporation via a Pan-European deal with the leading Taiwanese maker of piezo buzzers, magnetic buzzers, micro speakers, dynamic receivers, electret condenser microphones and earphones. Kingstate have 34 years manufacturing experience in the acoustic field.

Kingstate’s KPEG1300S is a combined strobe-siren alarm. The piezo electric buzzer measures 50mm high and with a diameter or 58mm. With Frequency 2.5KHz, it produces min. 100dB (typ. 105dB) at 12VDC/100cm. The unit also features six ultra-bright LEDs which can strobe with an intensity of 15,000mcd, providing an attention-grabbing visual as well as audible alarm. The KPEG1300S is RoHS-compliant and sealed to IP55.

Another new product, the KPEG1600MS, is a piezo electric buzzer with a high recognisable motor siren tone measuring 56mm in diameter and 42mm high. It also produces a minimum audible tone level of 100dB (typ. 105dB) at 100cm at 12VDC.

Comments VP Marketing, Alan Jermyn: “Kingstate invests in R&D to deliver smaller, multi-function products offering cost and value-added benefits. Avnet Abacus stocks a full range of Kingstate’s innovative audible alarms and buzzers – which will be especially suited to applications in the Fire & Security, Non Automotive transportation and Automation & Machine tools sectors – and offers design-in support for developers of new products.”

Avnet Memec EMEA, a division of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), is becoming the pan-European distributor of Echelon’s (NASDAQ: ELON) Commercial Markets product line for device and system manufacturers, the companies announced today. Echelon’s market-leading line of energy control network products — ranging from microprocessors, twisted pair and power line signaling component technology and system software to infrastructure products — is used in over 100 million devices and 300,000 buildings worldwide. The addition of Echelon’s products allows Avnet Memec to empower its building automation, managed street lighting, and renewable energy market efforts with the LonWorks® networking platform. Customers will be able to place orders with Avnet Memec as of July 1, 2011.

“Offering Echelon’s line of networking products to our existing customers will allow us to forge strong and fruitful relationships with the existing LonWorks community, and bring Echelon’s technology to a broad range of new customers,” said Steve Haynes, president of Avnet Memec EMEA. “The market for energy control networking is huge and the unique ability of Echelon’s technology to work across many applications and industries puts Avnet Memec in a strong market position – giving us a unified network solution offering with the flexibility and power to meet most any customer need.”

“Avnet brings a tremendous record of success to the market for energy control networks,” said Anders Axelsson, Echelon’s senior vice president of sales, commercial markets. “We’re seeing an increase in interest in how control networks enable energy management strategies, and it all begins with what’s designed into a device. Our relationship with Avnet promises to take the market for LonWorks networking-enabled products to a new level, and especially so in the vertical segments of building automation, street lighting, and renewables.”

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Initiative targets renewable energy, M2M interfacing, industrial control and more

Abacus – one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electromechanical and power distributors – and world-renowned connector maker, FCI are launching a joint Europe-wide initiative aimed at helping designers choose the right connector for demanding applications in the industrial market. Renewable energy, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) interfacing and industrial control systems are typical examples of the Demanding Applications market segments that pose particular design and manufacturing challenges.

Explained Marco Enge, Product Marketing manager at Avnet Abacus: “Today, electronics systems are everywhere – in factories, warehouses, shops, the home, in cars and mass transportation. Equipment must operate under severe environmental, mechanical and electrical conditions, as well as tough regulatory conditions and high consumer expectations. Additionally, products must withstand frequent use over many years, both by experts and less experienced users. These factors have a significant impact on the selection of components such as connectors.”

Avnet Abacus has a long-established and successful distribution relationship with FCI across Europe, and the two companies have leveraged their respective expertise and strengths in product development, manufacturing and market knowledge to create a balanced connector product portfolio that addresses the fast-growing Demanding Applications industrial market sector. The companies have also created a microsite www.avnet-abacus.eu/fci that provides technical design-in information, animations and other downloads.

“FCI is fully committed to supporting the Demanding Applications industrial sector and is able to provide industry standard connectors with specific features relevant to specific requirements”, said Michael Clarner, Distribution Key Account Manger at FCI. “Examples include our Ribcage industrial board-to-board connector range with a contact system designed to ensure signal integrity under extremes of shock and vibration, and our flexible connector system with secure cable locking system that is manufactured in LCP to withstand high temperatures.”

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Avnet Memec today announced that it has been appointed as an authorised distributor for high end technology developer, Leadtek Research Inc.  The pan-European agreement enables Avnet Memec to distribute products from Leadtek‘s four business areas across all territories in Europe.

Avnet Memec will focus on promoting low power, compact global positioning systems (GPS) modules to the original equipment manufacturers (OEM) market, while also carrying products from Leadtek’s comprehensive computer multimedia, wireless communication, audio/video communication and telecare divisions.

“We are increasingly finding that products and systems designed for industrial or professional use require GPS and wireless connectivity.  Adding Leadtek’s innovative modules and devices to our product line-up will enable us to bring our customers a greater choice of advanced technologies and we are looking forward to working closely with them to develop new business throughout Europe,” commented John Jones, technical marketing manager, Avnet Memec.

Leadtek’s compact GPS OEM modules are based on wireless technology provider CSR’s latest SiRFstarIV technology and provide extremely low power GPS technology.  The Leadtek platform is built to take advantage of CSR’s SiRFAware full feature set, and is ideal for use in a range of applications including personal digital assistant (PDA) and pocket personal computing devices, fleet management and asset tracking, and car and marine navigation.

Banson Chang, communication business unit manager from Leadtek, commented, “Leadtek Research Inc. has been in the GPS business for more than 15 years, and we are glad to ally with Avnet Memec as our most important strategic partner in Europe. With their strength and advantage, we feel confident that we can increase our GPS OEM module market share in the upcoming future.”

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Leading distributor to deliver unique power conversion solutions

Avnet Abacus – one of Europe’s leading power, interconnect, passive and electromechanical distributors – and Aimtec, the global designer and manufacturer of modular power supplies, have announced that they are expanding their working relationship with the signing of a pan-European distribution agreement.
Announcing the deal, Graham McBeth, President of Avnet Abacus commented: “The addition of Aimtec complements our already broad portfolio of power products and gives our customers even more choice. We expect European designers to be particularly excited by Aimtec’s low power AC-DC power supplies, extremely broad range of DC-DC converters as well as their expanding range of LED drivers.”
Aimtec’s President, Vladimir Serafimov, added: “With their outstanding technical and sales teams, Avnet Abacus have already delivered an exceptional commitment in securing new design opportunities during 2010. We expect them to continue to strengthen Aimtec’s market reach across Europe, allowing us to deliver our unique power conversion solutions to an ever-expanding customer base.”

Network power, USB connectivity, solid state storage and more on show at Avnet’s European ‘Design Strategies for ARM Systems’ program

Avnet Abacus – one of Europe’s leading interconnect, passive, electromechanical and power distributors – is to support its sister companies EBV Elektronik, Silica, Avnet Memec & Avnet Embedded at the recently-announced ‘Design Strategies for ARM® Systems’ seminar program which will play in 16 cities across Europe in May and June.

Design engineers will gain an exclusive opportunity to learn how to harness ARM’s latest mobile technology which is finding applications not only in the consumer market, but also in other growth sectors such as defence and medical. Attendees will also benefit from learning how to leverage the many supporting technologies from Avnet EM’s other Design Strategies for ARM Systems partners such as Freescale Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, Cypress, Microsoft and Xilinx.

Ensuring that designers choose the best passive, connector, power and emech technology to back up the enabling silicon solutions, Avnet Abacus – the IP&E division of Avnet Electronics Marketing– has a significant presence at these seminars, displaying power and connector products from Emerson, TE Connectivity , Molex, FCI and Varta Microbattery as well as the recently introduced Cymbet solid state franchise. Key focus will be given to technology product offerings including: Cymbet Energy harvesting power management solutions, Emerson network power supplies including the NPS20-M & NPS60-M series; and USB/HDMI and USB/IEEE-1394 connectors from Molex and TE Connectivity respectively.

Comments Avnet Abacus’ President Graham McBeth: “By introducing designers from Moscow to Milan and Stockholm to Cambridge to our broad portfolio of exciting technologies we hope that they will understand the real synergy that exists within the Avnet group companies. Avnet is known for spearheading design and that is as true for our product families as it is for our semiconductor colleagues.”

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