Advertorials AWS Electronics gains full TS 16949:2009 Approval


for Slovakia facility Cements AWS’ position as leading EMS provider for Automotive market


AWS Electronics Group, one of Europe’s leading specialist electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers, has announced that its facility in Námestovo, Slovakia, has achieved full TS 16949 certification, the international standard for Automotive Quality Management Systems.


AWS Electronics has invested significantly in its Slovakia facility since its inception nine years ago. There have been several phases of expansion. The company moved from its original location onto a Green Field site in 2010. Since that time the facility has seen two further expansions in manufacturing


space, taking the total factory now to a size of 38,000 ft². The original dedicated high volume automotive hall has also recently been expanded with the addition of a second automotive line.


The Námestovo site now employs over 250 employees and has seen revenue growth of 25% year on year over the last four years. Achieving TS 16949 approval has been critical to cementing AWS’ position as a leading EMS provider to the automotive market, demonstrating a dedicated and thorough understanding of how to provide exceptional quality and process control as well as a world class manufacturing set up within a low-cost environment.


AWS Electronics Group Tel: 07799412771 www.awselectronicsgroup.com


Lattice Semiconductor expands CrossLink


programmable ASSP (pASSP) IP solutions Latest IP, development platforms and resources enable new video bridging capabilities supporting a variety of MIPI interfaces


Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the leading provider of customizable smart connectivity solutions, today announced the expansion of its Lattice CrossLink™ programmable ASSP (pASSP) solutions to enable new video bridging capabilities with the release of three new CrossLink intellectual property (IP) and two new CrossLink demonstration platforms showcasing MIPI® DSI to LVDS and CMOS to MIPI CSI-2. Reinforcing Lattice’s commitment to provide bridging solutions for consumer, industrial, and automotive applications,


the company has optimized existing CrossLink IP to save logic resources and lower power consumption.


The CrossLink product was designed to address the challenges of today’s rapidly changing I/O landscape by offering designers a new way to develop high performance, low power and compact bridging solutions. Since the product introduction less than a year ago, Lattice has seen strong interest from customers to expand beyond typical early applications of the CrossLink product for simple interface conversion, merging and muxing of image sensors, application processors and displays.


By optimizing existing IP, leveraging new IP and development platforms, along with additional resources, Lattice can offer more solutions for a greater variety of bridging applications that captures the best of both worlds with the combined the flexibility and fast time to market of an FPGA and the power and functional optimization of an ASSP.


www.latticesemi.com OMC unveils a rainbow of next-generation LED


backlight colours with Active Reflector Technology™ Extended, vivid colours, including magentas and blue-greens; simplifies circuit design; more economical than RGB colour mixing


OMC, the pioneer in optoelectronics, announces it has developed a new technology that enables a whole rainbow of new LED backlight colours to be produced, including magentas and blue-greens. Previously the only way to achieve non- standard LED colours was to use RGB colour mixing, which involves three times as many chips, complex wiring and requires drive circuitry to control the relative channel levels. OMC’s new series of profiled backlights with Active Reflector Technology™ produces a striking range of vivid, next-generation LED backlight colours, and gives designers far greater creative choice and flexibility.


OMC’s proprietary Active Reflector Technology™ utilises photon wavelength upconversion to produce a wide range of rich colours and pastel shades. OMC’s new ART series backlights are available in crimson red, rose pink, a strong red-orange, bright orange, amber yellow, pastel yellow, high brightness yellow/green, vivid green, deep green, electric green-blue, a classic rich LED blue and a strong, bright shade of magenta. ART series backlights use only one wavelength of emitter per backlight, so there is no requirement to mix multiple LED wavelengths, reducing design complexity and lowering costs.


As a specialist manufacturer of LED backlights, OMC can produce bespoke shapes, sizes and colours as standard, with no set-up costs for most designs and very low minimum order quantities. Designers can have samples in as little as a few days. Next generation ART LED backlights suit multiple applications, including illuminating liquid crystal displays, logos, badges, signs and many more.


OMC Tel: 01209-215424 www.omc-uk.com


Hi-Rel connector manufacturer Harwin demonstrates quality commitment to aerospace industry; awarded


EN 9100/AS9100C accreditation Demonstrating commitment to deliver quality products & services to our customers


Leading hi-rel connector and SMT board hardware manufacturer Harwin announces it has been awarded EN 9100 / AS9100C accreditation, recognising the company’s commitment to quality and supply chain excellence. The internationally-recognised 9100 Series Quality Management System standard (referred to as AS9100 in the USA and JISQ 9100 in Japan) is specific to the aerospace industry and is adhered to and supported by all major aeronautics manufacturers worldwide. Aerospace is one of Harwin’s key market sectors and the company’s high-reliability connector product portfolio is specified in multiple applications including avionics, radar systems, aircraft interiors and communications, as well as being used in UAVs. Harwin interconnects are also designed into major projects with space agencies and satellite manufacturers.


Focussed on quality, safety and technology along the entire supply chain, EN 9100 accreditation is recognised within aviation industries as ensuring continuous improvement. Already certified to the ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management standard, the implementation of EN 9100 by Harwin demonstrates to its aerospace customers that additional best practice methodologies are in place throughout the organisation. Processes are focussed on consistently delivering products to extremely high safety and quality standards, as would be expected for industries where failure is not an option.


Harwin Tel: 02392 314 532 www.harwin.com


Mouser Electronics partners with Renesas to reach global IoT marketplaces


Expands availability of Renesas Synergy™ Platform featuring software, MCUs, and dev tools for IoT


Mouser Electronics, Inc., the New Product Introduction (NPI) leader that empowers innovation, today announced a new global distribution partnership with Renesas Electronics Corporation, a leading supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions. Launching the relationship at Embedded World, Mouser and Renesas will focus availability on the latest software, development kits, and microcontrollers (MCUs) that comprise the groundbreaking Renesas Synergy™ Platform. The Synergy Platform is designed to remove obstacles for design engineers and speed time to market for Internet of Things (IoT), industrial, and real- time operating system-based applications.


The Synergy Platform provides developers with immediate access to a complete embedded platform, starting with an application programming interface (API) to leverage a full software framework that is built around the best-in-class Express Logic X-Ware™. This software framework, the Synergy Software Package (SSP), relieves developers from creating and maintaining low-level software repeatedly for each of their embedded projects. The platform also integrates a wide range of scalable ARM®


Cortex® -M based MCUs fully accessible


through the software APIs, powerful features of the industry-leading development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench with intuitive configuration assistance, and hardware kits for development and solutions. Since everything has been pre-integrated, tested, and maintained by Renesas, developers can save months of work and extensive investment, freeing them to focus on innovation and differentiation of their end-products.


To learn more about the Renesas and the Synergy Platform, visit www.mouser.com/renesas


JAE connector portfolio now available in the


DACH region through TTI, Inc. Customers in DACH countries to benefit from greater service and support: EV and USB/HDMI mobile connector styles especially suitable for major programmes


TTI, Inc., a world leading specialist distributor of electronic components, has signed an agreement to distribute JAE’s connector products in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. JAE is one of the world’s leading connector suppliers, ranked at number seven by revenue. The company has a wide portfolio of board to board, board to cable, FFC/FPC, I/O, rectangular coaxial, fibre optic, circular and memory connectors that address many market sectors including industrial, transportation, home entertainment and infrastructure.


Comments Ronald Velda, Supplier Marketing Director Europe - Connectors for TTI: “We are delighted to be able to offer our customers the JAE product line. JAE is well-known for the exceptional reliability, quality and price/performance of its connector solutions. We believe that designers in key industrial and transportation sectors will benefit from greater access to its product line, especially JAE’s CHAdeMO connectors for electric vehicles and its USB and HDMI style connectors for a wide variety of mobile platforms.”


Added Erik Tröger, Distribution Manager at JAE: “TTI supports customers with in-depth stocking, knowledgeable design support and excellent logistics programmes. We are excited to welcome TTI as a distribution partner and are confident that together our companies will be able to deliver greater service to the market.”


TTI, Inc. www.ttieurope.com


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