CHICAGO -- Newark InOne, a small-quantity distributor of electronic components and test equipment in North America, offers a downloadable RoHS Legislation and Technical Manual on its RoHS Express Website:newarkinone.com/rohs. RoHS Express was launched in May to provide design engineer and component buyers with a continuously updated, in-depth source of information and news relating to the upcoming EU directive.

The 22-page manual contains an introduction to RoHS, a step by step guide to compliance, detailed information about the substances affected, a chapter on soldering and a closing environmental section.

The site also offers visitors the opportunity to receive free monthly RoHS email updates.

The manual, first published by Newark InOne's sister distributor, Farnell InOne, in the UK, can also be accessed at rohs.info.

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PITTSBURGH - Panasonic and Ansoft Corp. have released a new device library for Nexxim and Ansoft Designer based on Panasonic's high-density miniaturized SMT components. Engineers can now design large-scale PCBs with accurate electrical models for high-performance parts such as cellular handsets, car navigation systems and WLANs.

The library currently consists of three principal passive SMT components:

-- 159 multilayer ceramic chip capacitors (MLCC)

-- 186 chip resistors

-- 45 chip inductors.

Panasonic hopes to expand the library in the future to include LCR composites, noise suppression components, baluns, SAW devices and power supplies.

The library is available from Panasonic's Website (http://industrial.panasonic.com/i/library.html). Customers can search for components by name, performance data or other specification. Panasonic will maintain model support and upgrades, while Ansoft will address all customer support for Nexxim and Ansoft Designer.

REDMOND, WA --Data I/O Corp., a provider of manual and automated programming systems, announced the first manual and automated device programming support for Samsung’s OneNAND technology. Support is provided through Data I/O’s FlashCore system programming family, including the desktop programmer, offline automated handlers/programming systems and inline programming system.

“Data I/O’s programming systems make it easy for designers to merge multiple files from different types of memory in highly efficient multi-chip package designs that include OneNAND, which is perhaps the leading example of combined NAND and NOR design efficiency ,” said Ivan Greenberg, director of strategic marketing at Samsung. 

The first OneNAND-based MCP solution supported will be Item # KBJ1XKB00A, containing a 256Mb NOR, two 256Mb OneNAND and one 128Mb UtRAM die. 

SAN JOSE – The Semiconductor Industry Association today issued a revised forecast projecting worldwide sales of semiconductors will grow 6% in 2005 to a record $226 billion. The previous forecast, issued in November, projected flat 2005 sales.

"Worldwide sales of semiconductors have been stronger than expected through the first quarter,” said SIA president George Scalise, “driven by better than expected demand in a number of important end markets, including personal computers and wireless handsets."