Stock includes Freescale MC13224V Platform-in-Package and dev tools

Mouser Electronics, Inc., today announced it is stocking the MC13224V advanced ZigBee™ compliant Platform-in-Package and development tools from Freescale Semiconductor, an industry leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the wireless, networking, automotive, consumer, and industrial markets.

The feature rich Freescale MC13224V advanced ZigBee™ compliant Platform-in-Package is Freescale Semiconductor’s newest wireless connectivity solution. It provides a highly integrated, full-function, cost effective wireless personal area network (WPAN) alternative for IEEE802.15.4 MAC implementations. Simply add a crystal and an antenna and the node (or coordinator/router) is hardware ready. The unique package with RF matching internal to the package means engineers can now add wireless functionality quickly and effectively to many end products without the worry of RF matching and other RF complexities.

The 99-pin Freescale third-generation ZigBee MC13224V lowers power consumption up to 50% from previous generations and can be used for wireless applications ranging from the simplest point-to-point network connectivity to complex industrial and commercial ZigBee mesh networking. It incorporates a complete, low power 2.4GHz radio frequency (RF) transceiver, 32-bit ARM7™ core based MCU, hardware acceleration for both the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC and AES security, a full set of MCU peripherals and a 128 KB Flash memory mirrored into a 96 KB RAM for upper stack and applications software. An additional 80KB ROM contains the bootcode, all device drivers, and fully compliant IEEE 802.15.4 MAC including beaconing and GTS. For more information about the Freescale MC13224V, please visit http://www.mouser.com/freescale_mc13224V.

Mike Scott, Mouser Vice President of Active Products, states, “Freescale’s advanced ZigBee™ Platform-in-Package takes a giant leap forward in processing power, while lowering power consumption. A fully functional 32-bit TDMI ARM7™ processor combined with a ROM, RAM, and flash memory will make the design engineer’s projects faster, more powerful, and more efficient. Mouser is again at the forefront of providing the newest technology quickly to its customers.”

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Catalog #637 Features 48 New Pages, 25,000+ New Products, and Nine New Suppliers

Mouser Electronics, Inc., known for its rapid introduction of the newest products, today announced the availability of the latest catalogue for 2009. Catalogue #637 (Feb – April 09) features 2,184 pages of the newest products and technologies from over 390 premiere electronic component suppliers. An additional 48 pages of new products were added to Catalogue #637, while pages of products not recommended for new designs were removed, thus ensuring design engineers access to the latest, most up-to-date products available for their new design projects. In the last quarter alone, Mouser has added over 25,000 new products to the online and free print catalogue.

Just in the last year, 32 new suppliers were added to Mouser’s popular linecard, nine of which were added in this first quarterly edition, including Hirose, Tektronix, Spansion, Wurth Electronics, IAR Systems, CalAmp, Hendon Semiconductor, AXSEM, and Kamaya.

Exciting new products featured in Catalogue #637 include Texas Instruments’ 2.4GHz RF Front End Range Extender CC2591, Microchip’s FCC-certified RF Transceiver Modules MRF24J40MA, Freescale’s 8-bit MCU with 32-bit compatibility MC9S08AC128/96, Molex’s SFP+ high speed, stacked multi-port connector, and Zilog’s ePIR™ Zdots® motion detection SBC.

“Mouser excels at rapidly introducing new products so our engineering customers can quickly integrate the newest technology into their new designs,” said Mouser President & CEO Glenn Smith. “By publishing a free, entirely new print catalogue every 90 days and updating our online catalogue and website daily, we give our customers a time-to-market advantage that no other distributor in the industry offers.”

Mouser Electronics is the only major distributor in the industry to publish a new catalogue every 90 days. Due to the constant evolution of new products, new technologies, and new applications for existing products, Mouser’s free catalogue makes it easy to quickly find the latest product information. Colored logos and banners easily identify new products, new technologies, and new suppliers; while four-color, heavy stock section guides aid in quick identification of product categories.

With an annual circulation of over one million and quarterly mailings of 250,000 worldwide, Mouser’s new print catalogue is designed to work in concert with the distributor’s online catalogue featuring more than a million products for easy browse and buy. In addition, mouser.com contains more than one million cross-referenced parts, over 900,000 downloadable data sheets, as well as supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, and other technical design information.

Mouser’s globalization effort has resulted in catalogue pricing for several foreign currencies, as well as local language web domains to serve other countries.

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Farnell reflects growth potential for instrumentation and medical with new products and design support

Farnell, the leading multi-channel, high service distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally has enhanced its range of products and online technical resources relating to instrumentation and medical applications. The addition of 1,000 new products and added focus recognises the rapidly growing importance of this market sector and the need to support design engineers in developing industry-leading solutions.

The new product introductions include FPGAs, DSPs, high performance analogue and displays from leading suppliers such as Texas Instruments, Maxim and Freescale.

Instrumentation and medical provides the focus for the latest issue of Farnell’s Technology First Journal that contains a range of informative and interesting articles on the subject. This is supported by access to the new products via the Technology First online guide: ‘Instrumentation & Medical Electronics’ located on the Farnell website. The guide contains comprehensive information to support design work including technical datasheets, manufacturer’s guidance notes, technical articles and web casts.

The rapid growth in the instrumentation and medical electronics market is being driven by a demographic shift that is seeing a massive rise in the average age of the global population. This is stimulating demand for advanced medical electronics equipment that simplifies, speeds, and reduces the cost of healthcare.

Commenting on the focus and new product introductions, Jamie Furness, Technology Development Manager, Farnell said: “Technological capabilities are converging with huge demographic changes to create significant growth opportunities for medical electronics. At Farnell we are reflecting this situation by offering more leading-edge products and supporting them with technical information and insight to help the engineering community incorporate them into their latest product designs.”

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