Following its successful seven year relationship with EPCOS, Gateway Electronic Components Ltd – a leading independent franchised distributor – has secured a strategic agreement with TDK to distribute its range of innovative EPCOS and TDK products in the UK. Through the combination of EPCOS with the electronic components business of TDK, Gateway has been selected to carry the full range of components from the manufacturer due to its long standing relationship with EPCOS and the value it brings to customers within this arena. Customers now have the option to purchase the full range through the distributor, who is building a solid reputation both in terms of customer service and value added supply chain solutions.

Gateway is currently making a major investment in its stock profile of EPCOS and TDK products to ensure it is ready to respond to customer requirements. Investment in increased stock levels is being made in film and aluminium electrolytic capacitors, including pulse and suppression components; RF components, including SAW filters; current and voltage protection devices; sensors, piezo products, and thermistors.

Martin Ford Managing Director of Gateway components said “This extension to our franchise is a recognition of our commitment to EPCOS over the past seven years. We have achieved growth through technical competence augmented by our capability to deliver value for money supply chain solutions for major UK based OEM and CEM organisations. The relationship has gone from strength to strength and this gives our customers even further opportunity to take advantage of the range of value added procurement services that we have a reputation for.”

“During the seven years of engagement with EPCOS products, Gateway has demonstrated technical competence, stocking commitment and innovative supply chain solutions. We are subsequently delighted to extend our agreement to include TDK products and promote our broad range of leading technology high cap MLCCs and magnetic components”, commented Peter Miller. Senior Director Distribution TDK Electronics UK.

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Neil Harrison, President Europe, Farnell Element14 (on right) and Peter Jeutter, Senior Director Distribution Sales, EMEA Atmel (on left) conclude the signing of a full-line distribution agreement. The extensive range of Atmel’s advanced devices and development kits will now be available from Farnell element14.

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Digi-Key Corporation and Packet Digital LLC today announced the two companies have signed an agreement in which Digi-Key will be a global distributor of Packet Digital products.

Packet Digital is an emerging world leader in the design, development, and marketing of advanced power management solutions for portable electronic devices and embedded systems. With its patented On-Demand Power® technology and PowerSage® integrated circuits, Packet Digital extends battery life in portable electronic devices, helping consumer electronics companies and branches of the military develop faster, smarter, smaller products.

“Power management is extremely important when designing and developing portable electronic devices and embedded systems,” said Mark Zack, Digi-Key’s Vice President of Semiconductors. “PowerSage’s scalable, next generation approach to prolonged battery life addresses users’ insatiable appetites for extended usage without recharging.”
“Packet Digital is very excited to partner with industry leader Digi-Key to distribute our PowerSage integrated circuits worldwide,” said Terri Zimmerman, Packet Digital’s COO.
“By taking a real-time systems approach to power management, Packet Digital has developed PowerSage, a family of intelligent integrated circuits that monitor entire systems and distribute power only when needed by using dynamic voltage scaling,” said Dr. Joel Jorgenson, Packet Digital’s CEO. “PowerSage integrated circuits are ideal for notebook computers which require very long battery life and very economical use of power sources. They have also proven great savings in Servers, Portable Media Players, and other mobile devices and computers.”
Packet Digital was recently named the winner of the Electronics and Overall Innovation Challenge during Aviation Week 2012. United States Senator John Hoeven (ND) met with Jorgenson and Zimmerman in the US Capitol March 8 to congratulate the Fargo-based manufacturer for receiving the award.

Packet Digital products are available for purchase now on Digi-Key’s global websites.

As a leading, integrated, Internet-based global distributor of electronic components, information about and inventory of millions of products is accessible to customers around the globe, with all products shipped from Digi-Key’s single, North American location. The company’s integrated business model provides product and support information online to help put engineers and procurement professionals in control as they solve tough product development challenges.

The company’s online offerings and resources include: PTM® product training modules; TechZoneSM technology zones; Digi-Key toolbar; and a Mobile and Social Center.

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The Amplicon International team are delighted to announce the appointment of two new distributors: SCSI SL, a Spanish computer company, and System Technology Sweden AB, a Swedish Industrial solutions provider. These new appointments further strengthen the European distribution network and will provide high end industrial computing products to customers across Spain and Sweden.
Spanish Computer Services and Installations (SCSI) a well-established multi-vendor solutions provider will distribute the Amplicon industrial computer range and complement this with support packages that are traditionally available only at the top end of the server market.

Peter Christie, Managing Director at SCSI commented: “With Amplicon’s support and superb range of products we can now offer superior quality industrial solutions to our existing and new customers in the Spanish market.”

System Technology Sweden AB, founded in 1986, has an experienced team of engineers providing high standard specialist support for the most demanding industrial applications. The introduction of Amplicon leading-edge industrial computers into their portfolio will allow System Technology Sweden to provide their customers with an even broader range of integrated solutions.
Richard Klingspetz, VD of System Technology Sweden AB commented: “We are very pleased to be in partnership with Amplicon. Their range of high quality Industrial PC solutions will complement our current product portfolio and allow us to provide more flexible solutions to the Swedish market”.

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Saleae has named NorthTree Associates as a North American distributor of its cross-platform Logic Analyzers – the Logic and Logic16.

With the complexities of today’s electronic systems, there is an increased need to prototype electronic systems beginning in the early stages of design. With this need, a key factor is having the ability to decode, view and analyze multiple protocols.

The Saleae Logic and Logic16 analyzers are designed to increase productivity by reducing the time it takes to decode multiple protocols. The Logic and Logic16 come with decoders for Serial, PC, SPI, I-Wire, CAN, UNI/O, PS, PCM, Manchester, and MP Mode. By assisting engineers in making it faster and easier to decode a protocol, the time it takes in moving your products into the production cycle will be greatly reduced.

Located in San Francisco, Saleae provides flexible and cost-effective logic analyzers that reduce the limitations of the traditional decoding of multiple protocols. Their goal is to improve the electronic engineer’s productivity for simple and advanced test, analysis and debug tasks on new designs and prototypes.

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Lineage Power today announced it has entered a distribution agreement with Farnell element14, a leading high service distributor of electronics components and solutions. The agreement gives Farnell element14’s customers across Europe access to Lineage Power’s end-to-end, Total Efficiency™ architecture AC-DC power supplies and DC power converters.

“The addition of Lineage Power’s embedded power solutions to our distribution portfolio demonstrates our commitment to meet the increasing demands of the design engineering community,” said Mike Buffham, Director of Product and Supplier Management at Farnell element14. “We are proud to offer our OEM customers access to truly innovative solutions that reduce time to market.”
The new contract will benefit Farnell element14 customers all across Europe with access to online technical support and collaboration via the online element14 community.

“With their market reach and industry expertise, Farnell element14 is an ideal distribution partner for us, as we share their commitment to supplying innovative, high quality power electronics to the OEM marketplace,” said Jeff Frank, global vice president of sales for Lineage Power. “Working together, we can offer customers in Europe the required size, efficiency, and cost advantages while dramatically reducing risk and improving reliability.”

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LPRS has been appointed by Arronna Antennas as the exclusive distributor in Europe for their comprehensive range of antennas.

Established in 2007 Arronna manufactures a wide variety of OEM and ODM antennas including; LTE, WIMAX, WiFi, 3G, DECT, WLAN, CDMA, GPRS, CMMB, DMB, GSM and DVB-T types.
Signing the agreement at CeBit 2012 John Sharples, Managing Director of LPRS comments; “We are very pleased to have been chosen by Arronna to sell their antennas exclusively across Europe. Our long experience of selling our own easyRadio wireless modules internationally gives Arronna access to a well-established and highly motivated European sales channel. Arronna have recently introduced a number of new products for high growth applications, such as WIMAX, which will be of great interest to our customers.

In addition to the Arronna antenna range and its own easyRadio Advanced (eRA) wireless modules the LPRS product range now includes, narrow band long range wireless modules from CDP, the IQRF range of wireless networking components, the IQVC range of visual control panels together with antenna, wireless key fobs and a wide range of sensor products.

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DATA MODUL AG Munich has closed a distribution contract with immediate effect with Micro-Star International (MSI) for sales territories Germany, Austria and Switzerland. MSI has over-20-year experience in motherboard manufacturing and has now evolved and grown to become the world’s top 3 largest motherboard manufacturers.

In 2006, MSI penetrated the industrial platform computing (IPC) market with successful and professional experience in motherboard field, and started providing reliable and long-term available industrial products.

These innovative and high-quality products provide a perfect enhancement for the existing embedded linecard in DATA MODUL.

Since 2007 DATA MODUL offers embedded systems based on x86 and ARM/Xscale architectures. From pre-configured kits consisting of embedded board, display, fitting cable set and inverter/converter up to fully customized baseboard designs and assembled open frame panel PCs DATA MODUL provides the whole range of embedded solutions.

Gateway Electronic Components, has been appointed by CamdenBoss to distribute its complete range of components and enclosures. The new deal will strengthen Gateway’s electro-mechanical portfolio of products and will feature terminal blocks, interconnection products, fuses, batteries, switches, opto and enclosures.

CamdenBoss enjoys a reputation for supplying a diverse range of innovative and cost effective electro-mechanical components to a variety of industries and applications including fire and security, military, medical, industrial, test and measurement, lighting and audio visual markets. These expanding markets offer Gateway a great opportunity for growth with a product range that compliments its existing franchise offering.

Commenting on the new agreement, Martin Ford, Managing Director of Gateway Components said, “CamdenBoss offers Gateway and its’ customers access to a broad and professional range of components that perfectly augments our existing product offering. CamdenBoss has a reputation for value for money, quality products available either ex-stock or on short lead times, supported by a highly competent team. Our new association and the investment in stock brings all these assets closer to our customers, delivered in a Gateway wrapper.”

Nicola Kay, Managing Director of CamdenBoss, stated that “everyone at CamdenBoss has been genuinely impressed with the interest and committment shown by the team at Gateway during our discussions. We are delighted to be able to appoint a distributor who is embedded with many significant UK companies, and who offers an exceptional level of specialist service to them. We firmly believe that the CamdenBoss range enhances the range of passive and semiconductor products that Gateway has in its portfolio and we are very confident that the partnership will benefit Gateway’s customers.”

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Acal BFi and Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announces they have signed a distribution agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Acal BFi is authorized to sell Lattice’s complete portfolio of innovative low power, low cost FPGA, PLD and programmable power management design solutions across France.

“This agreement represents a unique opportunity for Acal BFi France to provide additional design and logistic services to our French customers with Lattice’s innovative FPGA and CPLD design solutions,” said Vincent Courty, Acal BFI France’s Managing Director. “We are proud that our semiconductor team’s expertise has been recognized by Lattice Semiconductor as an effective way to drive the long term success of Lattice’s products in France.”

“Lattice makes every effort to offer our customers a distribution network of technically focused companies who understand and support our products as well as our customers’ needs,” said Stacy Fender, Lattice Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Sales. “With the addition of Acal BFi in France, we are providing another business and technical support option for our customers in the region. We are pleased to have Acal BFi as part of our distribution network, and look forward to a very successful partnership for many years to come.”