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Avnet Silica to present suite of leading-edge AI board solutions at embedded world 2023
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced details of its presence at embedded world 2023, which is being held at the Messe Nuremberg, Germany between 14-16 March 2023. Avnet Silica will be exhibiting under its umbrella theme of ‘Experience the Future’, with a special focus upon smart industry and the key technologies that underpin its future development, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and the IoT. The Avnet Silica stand will host a series of demonstrations in partnership with key semiconductor suppliers and is based around many of the extensive suite of Avnet development kits and boards available today. The demos will include: The Renesas powered…
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Avnet Silica announces distribution deal with SiTime
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced the signing of an agreement to add the products and technologies of SiTime to its portfolio of silicon timing products. The distribution deal extends a previous agreement between SiTime and Avnet in the US and Asia to cover the EMEA region forming a global relationship. SiTime is the market leader in offering MEMS-based precision timing solutions that target a $10B total timing market by 2024. SiTime solutions are used by 15,000 customers in 250 applications, with over 2 billion units shipped globally. The SiTime product offering includes a wide portfolio of devices such as oscillators, clock generators and resonators. The SiTime…
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Avnet Silica launches online technical support service
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced the launch of its new online technical support service (OTSS). The new support service is available for customers to sign up at: www.avnet-silica.com/otss Avnet Silica’s team of experts, who are all based in Europe, are dedicated to helping solve technical challenges and aim to answer any questions quickly and effectively to enable customers to meet their project timescales. There are three key areas where customers can require additional support. The first is component choice and the team has high levels of expertise to advise on technical questions on products from all suppliers listed on Avnet Silica’s line card. For new designs,…
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Avnet Silica to showcase innovative AI / ML technologies at embedded world
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (Nasdaq: AVT), will exhibit at embedded world, the leading trade fair for the embedded community, from 21 – 23 June 2022 in Nuremberg, Germany. Located in Hall 3A Booth 111, Avnet Silica will demonstrate how its AI at the edge capabilities move intelligence closer to where it is needed by using processing algorithms, in partnership with some of the world’s leading manufacturers. Offering a combination of digital and physical demos, Avnet Silica will showcase a range of innovative AI / ML, power, wireless and connectivity and industrial communications technologies including: A state-of-the-art AI accelerated camera development system that creates machine learning applications with deep learning algorithms for object detection, face…
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Avnet Silica announces distribution agreement with Octavo Systems and gains access to advanced System-in-Package (SiP) technology
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced it has added advanced SiP (System-in-Package) technology to its portfolio, via a distribution agreement between Avnet and Octavo Systems, a leading provider of innovative high-quality SiP solutions. The industry is increasingly seeing a transition from System-on-Chip (SoC) integration to new and innovative SiP methodologies. Employing standardised SiP devices in electronic designs across a wide variety of different applications can simplify the design and development process and speed the time to market. For example, it can deliver a multitude of benefits including a significant reduction in board real-estate and bill-of-materials (BOM) cost, along with a much-simplified supply chain with the number of…
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Avnet Silica announces availability of Microsoft Azure Sphere enabled LoRaWAN gateways from Miromico
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced availability of Microsoft Azure Sphere enabled LoRaWAN gateways from Miromico, an established OEM for IoT devices that focuses on design services in the field of integrated circuits, electronic systems, software and manufacturing. Miromico’s new LoRaWAN gateways seamlessly integrate the Microsoft Azure Sphere platform, which enables the monitoring, tracking and management of data in almost every environment from buildings to factories, in hospitals, in agricultural and retail applications, and in smart cities. Integrating the platform from qiio®, the gateway supports cellular, Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity, with easy deployment and automatic management. LoRaWAN is an RF communications technology that enables devices scattered across…
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Avnet Silica announces details of cooperation for ‚Internet of Trees‘ networking solution to help prevent spread of forest fires
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced details of its work with an innovative start-up company that is using advanced IoT networking to help prevent the spread of forest fires across the world. Given the potential size of a forest, plus the lack of infrastructure within them, the challenge is enormous to sense the earliest stages of a wildfire. Dryad is a Berlin-based company that has addressed the issue by developing advanced sensing nodes and highly distributed networking technology. Designed to overcome constraints such as the lack of power and connectivity in forests, its Silvanet solution consists of three pieces of hardware; proprietary RF networking that extends the…
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Miromico’s 2.4 GHz LoRa® transceiver modules are first in class with fully compatible Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0
The IoT modules enable wireless connectivity to sensors, devices and systems communicating at high data rates or over a long distance and run a fully compatible Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 stack built on Semtech’s SX1280 chipsets. 19th May 2021– Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced the availability of Miromico’s FMLR-8x-x-STLx LoRa® IoT modules that run a fully compatible Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.0 stack using Semtech’s 2.4 GHz SX1280 LoRa transceiver. The solution does not require any additional BLE 5.0 device. Target IoT applications include track and trace, building automation, construction monitoring, mining, farming, telemetry, remote data logging, and many others. Built on Semtech’s LoRa 2.4 GHz…
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Avnet Silica wins 2020 demand creation award from Micron Technology
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), has been awarded ‘Best Demand Creation Distributor in EMEA 2020’ by Micron Technology, an industry leader in innovative memory and storage technologies. During the 2020 fiscal year, Avnet Silica generated more than 50% of Micron’s demand creation revenue across its distribution network in EMEA. Avnet Silica distributes a broad portfolio of high-performance Micron memory and storage products designed for application in diverse industries such as factory automation, automotive, surveillance, M2M, retail, digital signage, smart grid, transportation, healthcare, and aerospace and defence. The latest product introductions include DDR5 SDRAM, industrial- and automotive-grade solid state drives, microSD cards, and NOR flash memory devices. “This recognition…
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Avnet Silica introduces Miromico’s 2.4GHz LoRa® transceiver modules for ranging applications
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced the availability of Miromico’s FMLR-8x-x-STLx LoRa® and LoRaWAN® IoT modules. Based on Semtech’s LoRa® 2.4GHz technology, Miromico partnered with danalto to enable location services. The low power modules connect wirelessly to sensors, devices, and systems to communicate at high data rates or over long distances. Target IoT applications include track and trace, smart city, building, construction, mining and farming, telemetry and remote data logging. “Leveraging Miromico’s best in class devices which include the SX1280, danalto have been able to move ahead with deploying this technology into sectors where an offering of this nature was not available until now. This has been…
