A free Seminar on Signal Chain and Power management is to be hosted by Linear Technology and Arrow. Kris Lokere and Simon Bramble from LTC, will dive deep into the technology of Signal Chain and Power Management, and Gary Church from Arrow will demonstrate LTC’s power supply design tool.  

Arrow Electronics emerged from Kontron’s Global Partner Event, held during March in Augsburg, Germany, with two awards in recognition of its technical and business performance. The first award was ‘Best Global COM System Integrator’, which was accepted by Arrow’s OEM Computer Solutions (OCS) team in Israel.

ARIS, a ready-to-use Internet of Things (IoT) hardware and software platform that enables users to get their IoT applications up and running quickly with the Renesas Synergy development framework has been launched by Arrow Electronics. Arrow developed the ARIS board in conjunction with the Italian design house Reloc.

Vicor has extended its franchise distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics to cover a further 16 European countries. Arrow previously worked with Vicor in the UK and Italy only. The extension follows a successful year during which Arrow grew its business with the Vicor product line and identified a significant number of new project opportunities.

Arrow Electronics has signed a distribution agreement with Siretta, a supplier of wireless M2M products specialising in wireless modems, cloud based software and M2M application solutions. The agreement, which covers all Siretta’s product offering in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) is already generating strong interest from customers.

A comprehensive portfolio of solutions for embedded developers, from entry-level makers to established professionals will be featured by Arrow Electronics at Embedded World in Nuremberg (Feb 23-25).  Key highlights at the booth, 258 in hall 5, will be the broad selection of development boards Arrow has created with selected technical partners, based on popular processors and system-on-chip ICs.

Arrow Electronics is participating in the NXP Smarter World Tour for the Internet of Things as a top level, Platinum sponsor. Arrow’s involvement will build on its own recently completed IoT in Focus seminar series, which ran in eight countries across Europe. The NXP Smarter World Tour involves a dedicated heavy-weight truck that functions as a mobile exhibition stand equipped with 138 demonstrations.

The latest addition to Arrow’s growing portfolio of development tools is the Arrow-built SF2+ Development Kit, featuring Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 system-on-a-chip (SoC) field-programmable gate array (FPGA), Timberwolf audio processor and LX series power devices. The SF2+ Development Kit is ideal for both software and hardware engineers looking to jumpstart next-level integrated designs.

The new Intel Quark processors that Intel unveiled at its Internet if Things (IoT) Insights event in San Francisco will be on the market from Arrow Electronics. The new Intel Quark microcontroller D1000, Intel Quark microcontroller D2000 and the Intel Quark SE microcontroller announced today are designed to bring low-cost connectivity, integration and compatibility to the next wave of intelligent things.

Arrow Electronics and the non-profit organisations Close the Gap and Hoops of Hope collaborate to turn used cargo containers into fully equipped digital classrooms and health clinics that can be deployed to remote areas of Africa.  The first “DigiTruck” in Africa was unveiled to the Tuleeni Orphanage in Tanzania in early August. The DigiTruck is now providing some 80 orphans at Tuleeni with a classroom full of high-quality, refur...

Design engineers can now create solutions with significantly more advanced functionality and connectivity while saving time and design costs by utilising the certified WiLink 8 module from Texas Instruments (TI) combined with i.MX6 processors from Freescale. Available from Arrow Electronics, this new module provides users with the best of both worlds: it enables Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo-connectivity in a single package which can be added to embe...

Arrow Electronics – in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon  – will showcase the new DragonBoard 410c “Internet of Things” (IoT) Starter Kit, which is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor and bundled with Amazon’s new IoT Software Development Kit (SDK), today at AWS re:Invent, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) annual user conference.

OEMs and end users building powerful Internet of Things (IoT) applications for businesses will be the target for Arrow Electronics through its new distribution agreement with Solair, a young technology innovator. Solair is an application platform for the Internet of Things that makes businesses smarter by connecting them with their products through compelling IoT applications.

The latest addition to the Arrow Electronics portfolio of development tools is the DECA evaluation board, featuring Altera’s MAX 10 FPGA and Enpirion power solutions. Altera’s MAX 10 FPGAs transforms non-volatile FPGAs by integrating dual-configuration flash, analogue blocks, memory, DSP and embedded processing capabilities all within a small form-factor single chip package.

A wide-ranging and all-embracing set of seminars on the Internet of Things (IoT) are being planned by Arrow Electronics. The IoT in Focus tour will encompass locations in Germany, France, UK, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Austria, and Switzerland and cover connectivity and embedded applications, system integration, big data and the cloud.

Development of a custom IC for ZRRO Technologies to help produce an innovative new remote controller that brings tablet and mobile phone-like gaming experiences to users’ televisions was expedited by a team from Arrow Electronics.  The Kickstarter-funded project incorporates ZRRO’s zTOUCH 3D-sensing technology and enables users to interact with their TVs from the couch using a hover-and-touch remote controller with the sensing ca...

An exclusive System on Module (SoM) that helps engineers exploit the new ARM-powered Freescale QorIQ LS1021A communication processor has been unveiled by Arrow Electronics, together with two associated carrier boards that give a choice of platforms for application development. Arrow developed the ECUcore-1021 SoM and boards together with Freescale and automation technology systems specialist SYS TEC electronic.

DragonBoard 410c, a low-cost development board design based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor is on sale at Arrow Electronics. Arrow will manufacture and distribute the DragonBoard 410c to community developers and commercial customers.  The credit card-sized kit is based on Linaro’s 96Boards specification and enables developers, makers, universities and commercial manufacturers to use the Snapdragon 410 processor for things such...

An open-source, specification-compliant board that is based on the new Freescale i.MX 7 microprocessor was announced at the Freescale Technology Forum by Arrow Electronics. Arrow also collaborated with Qualcomm Atheros, a subsidiary of Qualcomm on the board’s Bluetooth & Wi-Fi capabilities and with Linear Technologies on the board’s power supply.

Arrow Electronics has joined Linaro, the not-for-profit engineering organisation that consolidates and optimises open-source software for ARM applications. Arrow is the first Linaro collaborator with both hardware-design and distribution capabilities. “Arrow is excited to bring its best-in-class design engineering services, comprehensive product offerings and unparalleled global supply chain relationships to Linaro’s open-source commu...