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July Issue, 2011-07-14

Energy Harvesting Technology is HERE, check out the new Energy harvesting Reference Design from Silicon Labs and Arrow

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Arrow is pleased to introduce the first complete energy harvesting solution—the new

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wireless sensor node that operates on solar energy. Come and click here to check this innovative solution that helps overcoming the major energy harvesting roadblocks of the past making endless energy a reality.

Arrow/Cypress/Freescale/ST/Semtech - Unleash The Future with Smart Sensing Partnering with Cypress, Freescale, ST and Semtech, Arrow presents Unleash the Future with Smart Sensing on Aug 9, 12, 16 in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing, China respectively. This technology seminar provides a range of revolutionary Smart Sensing Solutions that features a range of user interface functions from simple capacitive sensing button to motion sensing module of sophisticated technology integrating high-precision mechanics and sub-micron silicon devices to help you accelerate time-to-market of the most innovative applications in the market. To register, please click here.

Altera and Arrow will have Technolohy Roadshow in Asia Pacific Altera with Arrow will organize technology roadshow in 13 Cities in Asia Pacific including China, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan and India from Aug to Nov 2011. In the seminar,

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arrowEDGE 2011 - a leading tech guide that you cannot miss this year!

How many times have you been overwhelmed by product information and data?

Arrow features the top 35 products from 14 suppliers in this arrowEDGE. You will definitely find this technology guide useful for your design. To download arrowEDGE, please click here. What's more? You will have chance to win an attractive prize after you provide the product feedback to us.

Arrow Electronics Acquires the Distribution Business of Seed International Ltd. Arrow Electronics Identified as Number-one "Broad-line" Distributor for On-time Delivery Arrow China Named Again Most Preferred Global Distributor top

Purchasing Market Trend - Asia Pacific This report provides general information on purchasing trend of product segments including Analog, Discrete, Embedded, Logic, Connectors etc. Contact your local Arrow sales representative to find out how Arrow can help you manage inventory assets more effectively and increase your supply chain efficiency.

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ADI - Energy Storage System for Small Solar Photovoltaic & Wind Turbine Generators This article focuses on storing the generated energy in banks of Li-ion cells and highlights those ADI products which can deliver safe and efficient system operation over time and temperature.

Cypress - Simple techniques to Improve Solar Panel efficiency using a Microcontroller or SOC Today, people are more concerned about fossil fuel exhaustion and environmental problems caused by conventional power generation and renewable energy sources than ever before. Among the renewable resources, photovoltaic panels and windgenerators are primary contenders.

Fairchild - The promise of solar technology Solar electricity generation is becoming a viable alternative energy source, due to burgeoning energy costs. Up until 2007, the German solar market was the world’s

Jul 14: Arrow/Cree Lighting Seminar in Zhongshan, China Aug 2: Arrow/Cree Lighting Seminar in Penang, Malaysia Aug 9: Arrow Technology Seminar - Unleash The Future with Smart Sensing (Shenzhen) in Shenzhen, China Aug 10: Altera Technology Roadshow 2011 (Chengdu) in Chengdu, China Aug 12: Arrow Technology Seminar - Unleash The Future with Smart Sensing (Shanghai) in Shanghai, China Aug 16: Arrow Technology Seminar - Unleash The Future with Smart Sensing (Beijing) in Beijing, China Aug 16: Altera Technology Roadshow 2011 (Shanghai) in Shanghai, China Aug 18: Altera Technology Roadshow 2011 (Hangzhou) in Hangzhou, China

largest solar market driven by a law encouraging the use of renewable energy through incentives (the “Energieeinspeisungsgesetz”). Other countries have taken Germany's lead.

Freescale - The Essential Source for Energy Applications The goal of the worldwide rollout of smart grids and smart meters is to provide energy efficiency throughout the entire networked infrastructure.

Linear - Energy Harvesting for Beginners With electronic circuits now capable of operating at microwatt power levels, it is feasible to power them from non-traditional sources. This has led to energy harvesting, which provides the power to charge, supplement or replace batteries in systems where battery use is inconvenient, impractical, expensive or dangerous.

Micrel - Point-of-Load DC-DC Converters Delivers High Efficiency and High Step-Down Ratios with Ultra-fast Transient Response Point-of-Load (POL) system designers in industrial, networking/communications, and high-end consumer applications are constantly challenged with numerous important design choices.

NS - Solar IC Solutions Maximize PV System Efficiency and Safety As the photovoltaic (PV) market has evolved over the past thirty years, system solutions providers have continued to focus their efforts on increasing efficiency of modules, quality designs, and building arrays to withstand environmental affects for the life of the array. Because arrays are expected to function reliably and safely for over 20 years, this is a huge task for the industries providers to meet such stringent demands. The article describes how National's IC solutions for power optimizers and microinverters were developed to help system installers, designers, and owners get

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the best return on investment (ROI).

NXP - How photovoltaic energy production can become smarter and much more efficient Every six hours, enough sunlight energy reaches the Earth to meet the world's energy demand for an entire year. With such a huge amount of freely available green energy, Photo-Voltaic (PV) technology has become an icon of the environmental movement.

But, PV/solar has been the energy of the future for three decades and still accounts for less than 0.5% of the world's energy production.

On Semiconductor - Reference Design for Solar Power MPPT Controller NCP1294 The ON Semiconductor reference design analyzes considerations for battery charging controllers for designing solar-powered LED street lighting system. It introduces a system circuit the NCP1294, which is a switching controller for lead acid battery charging from a solar panel with Maximum Peak Power Tracking (MPPT). The design also discusses about how to implement peak power tracking using the device to extract maximum power from the solar panel and to charge the storage battery, thereby achieving higher energy efficiency.

Renesas - Solar System for Home Use Solar power systems (solar power generation devices), being devices that produce sustainable energy, are representative eco-friendly systems, the use of which has spread from not only feed systems for private power generation in factories and so on, to power generation in homes.

Silicon Lab - The Energy Harvesting Tipping Point for Wireless Sensor Applications Ever since the first watermills and windmills were used to generate electricity, energy harvesting has been an attractive source of energy with great potential. In recent years, energy harvesting technology has become more sophisticated and efficient, and energy storage technologies, such as supercapacitors and thin-film batteries (TFBs), have become more cost-effective.

ST - STEVAL-ILL022V1 solar-LED streetlight controller The solar-LED streetlight controller consists of one 80 W battery charger and one 25 W LED driver. During the daytime, when there is sufficient sunlight, the charger converts the electricity from the solar panel and charges the battery. At nighttime, the battery powers on the LED lamp as streetlight.

TE Connectivity - SOLARLOK Connectivity Systems for PV Installers Market expansion of the formerly regulated energy supply sector, increased global environmental awareness and governments committing themselves to more stringent environmental targets have opened up new opportunities for the photovoltaic industry.

TI - TMS320C2000™ DSP Controllers: A Perfect Fit for Solar Power Inverters The solar inverter is a critical component in a solar energy system. It performs the conversion of the variable DC output of the Photovoltaic (PV) module(s) into a clean sinusoidal 50- or 60 Hz AC current that is then applied directly to the commercial electrical grid or to a local, off-grid electrical network.

Vishay - Photovoltaic Panel Bypass Diode Protection Schottky barrier rectifiers are normally used in bypass diodes for monocrystalline silicon and polycrystalline photovoltaic (PV) panels, where they protect PV cells at hot spots during low-shunt and high-shunt resistance conditions.

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Amphenol® Industrial Operations (AIO): Products and solutions for all Solar system The Helios H4 can provide panel manufacturers, installers, and OEM's with connectivity products for both thin film and crystalline silicon technologies. Featuring RADSOK technology; Helios H4 and H4 Panel Connector offer higher >more

ADI Renewable Energy—Solar PV Solutions Analog Devices leads the industry in highly accurate and precise signal measurement and control by delivering cost competitive, high quality ICs for reliable metering, measurement, and control. These products are used in renewable >more

Bourns® Model H-516 Turns-Counting Dial Release Bourns® Sensors and Controls is proud to announce the release of our Model H-516 Turns-Counting Dial. This new dial is specifi cally suited for interface with plastic shaft models such as the 3590S-1.

Emerson Network Power Enters Residential and Small Business Renewable Energy Market Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR) and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™, launched the SPV-5.0 grid tie solar inverter, marking the company’s entry into the residential and small >more

Fairchild Semiconductor

Attends Portable Innovate 2011, Outlines Optimal

Smartphone Design Portable devices, particularly smartphones, are enjoying a surge in consumer interest, and Fairchild Semiconductor

(NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high

performance power and mobile products, will show its numerous >more

Freescale drives embedded multicore innovation with new QorIQ Advanced Multiprocessing series Freescale

Semiconductor

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FSL],

the

market

leader

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communications processors for networking equipment, is unveiling its next-generation QorIQ multicore platform. The Advanced Multiprocessing (AMP) series >more

Linear Technology's 15V, Dual 3A Monolithic Sync Step-Down Regulator Powers DDR1, DDR2 or DDR Memory The LTC3634 is a high efficiency, dual-channel monolithic synchronous step-down regulator from Linear Technology, which provides power supply and bus termination rails for DDR1, DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM controllers. The LTC3634 >more

Micrel: Automotive Qualified High Brightness LED Driver IC LED-based lighting is gaining popularity in automotive applications with both LED Makers and LED light engine designers in need of more robust, efficient solutions that enable OEMs to realize the full benefits of energy-efficient >more

National Introduces Industry's First 2A, Single Inductor, RGB LED Driver For Portable Projectors Compact LM3435 with I2C Control Interface Drives LEDs Sequentially SANTA CLARA, Calif. – June 9, 2011 – National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM) today introduced the industry’s first 2A red, green and blue (RGB) LED driver >more

OSRAM: LR W5AM, LA W5AM, LY W5AM Golden DRAGON Plus Enhanced thin film LED Lead (Pb) Free Product Golden DRAGON Plus Enhanced thin film LED Lead (Pb) Free Product - RoHS Compliant LR W5AM, LA W5AM, LY W5AM

RECOM: Low cost 3W and 6W LED-Driver with constant current supply in ultra compact design RECOM announces the release of an extension to their range of isolated AC/DCLED-Drivers with constant current-output in 3 to 6 Watt power supply.

SMSC Launches New Cost-Down Version of MOST® Intelligent Network Interface Controller SMSC (NASDAQ: SMSC), a leading semiconductor company creating valued connectivity ecosystems,today announced the availability of its OS81092 Intelligent Network Interface Controller for MOST®. The MOST50 technology with an >more

ST: NEW power Schottky diodes in PowerSO-20 ensure robust and highlyreliable car audio systems The new STPS60L30C-Y and STPS30H60C-Y power Schottky diodes, housed in PowerSO-20 packages, offer designers a choice of 30 V and 60 V reverse-voltage ratings. AEC-Q101 qualified, this series is fully compliant with >more

TE Connectivity: SOLARLOK Micro Junction Box Sized only 67 x 74.2 mm and just 16.5/15.7 mm high, our innovative SOLARLOK micro junction box is very small but incredibly powerful. No wonder, we have put more than 25+ years of crystalline experience in it. The 2-rail junction >more

Texas Instruments LLC Half-Bridge Controller For Multi-String LED Lighting The UCC25710 is an LLC half-bridge controller for accurate control of multi-string LED backlight applications. It is optimized for multi-transformer,multi-string LED architectures. Superior LED current matching in multiple strings >more

Texas Instruments TMS320F2806x

PiccoloTM

Real-time

32-bit

Microcontrollers

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The F2806x Piccolo™ family of microcontrollers provides the power of the C28x™ core and Control Law Accelerator (CLA) coupled with highly integrated control peripherals in low pin-count devices. This family is code-compatible >more

Vishay Intertechnology Releases Cool White LED Modules The VLPC0601A2 features 6 LEDs in a row on a 240 mm x 14 mm PCB that provides 870 lm. The VLPC1201A2J features 12 LEDs in a row on a 240 mm x 14 mm PCB that provides 1740 lm. The VLPC1201A2 is simply half a VLPC1201A2J, resulting >more

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International Wind Energy Development: World Market Update 2010 DEMAND AND MARKET GROWTH IN 2010 With 39,404 MW of new installations, the total installed capacity of wind power grew to approximately 200,000 MW. This was an increase in cumulative installations of 25%. In terms of annual >more

India Renewable Power Market including Hydro, Installed Capacity, MW, 2001-2020 Hydro power dominates the total renewable power installed capacity with a share of

nearly74.25% in 2009.The cumulative installed capacity has increased to 39,404 MW in 2009 from 26,269 MW in 2001 at a CAGR of 5.2% during the >more

3M's Revolutionary Cable Solution Recipient of 2011 R&D 100 Award 3M™ Twin Axial Ribbon Cable, SL8800 Series named one of the most technologically significant products introduced in the past year by R&D Magazine

SMSC Acquires BridgeCo Inc. eader in Home Consumer Electronics Wireless Connectivity HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., May 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SMSC (NASDAQ: SMSC), a leading semiconductor company enabling content rich connectivity systems, today announced that it >more

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