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Top 25 global electronics component distributors

Hello, and welcome back to another installment in the long-running Top 25 Distributors list, brought to you by EBN and hosted this year by our colleagues at EDN. As you’ll see from the annual list, not too much changed amid the electronic components distribution landscape in 2012. Some companies lost revenue ground, and some gained—some

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AZIZ: LED Microscope Illuminator (2013)

AZIZ is an LED microscope illuminator that I designed and built from scratch.  It is designed around a Texas Instruments TLC59116 constant-current PWM LED driver chip, and an Atmel ATTiny1634 8-bit microcontroller. Features include: 64 LED illuminator, comprised of an inner ring of 32 super-bright white spotlight LEDs (25,000mcd) and an outer ring of 32

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DNA testing chip delivers results in one hour

Panasonic, together with the Belgium-based research institution IMEC, has developed a DNA testing chip that automates all stages of obtaining genetic information, including preprocessing. This development is expected to enable personalized, tailor-made therapy to become widespread. SNPs are variations in a single DNA base among individuals. Detecting SNPs makes it possible to check whether genetically

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Analog Devices releases free version of RF design tool

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) released a new version of its popular ADIsimRF design tool: The free design tool is the software accompaniment to ADI’s complete portfolio of RF-to-digital functional blocks, allowing engineers to model RF signal chains using devices from across ADI’s RF IC and data converter portfolio. ADIsimRF Version 1.7 adds a number of

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LT6110 cable/wire drop compensator

Features Improve Voltage Regulation to a Remote Load by 10× Ideal for Resistor-Adjustable Voltage Regulators Gain Configurable with a Single Resistor High Side Current Sensing: Integrated 20mΩ Sense Resistor for Up to 3A Ability to Use an External Sense Resistor 300μV Maximum Input Offset Voltage Output Current Accuracy of 1% Maximum 30μA Maximum Supply Current

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