GREENVILLE, S.C., June 30, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, is honored to have secured six slots, representing eight total new product series, on the 2014 Electronic Design Top 101 Components list, which was released on June 13, 2014. The eight AVX product series recognized by the publication's editors and readers as some of the most innovative and useful components of 2014 are: the 9296 Series Single Poke Home Wire-to-Board Naked Connectors (#14), the GLM and GLN Series High Frequency Ultra-Broadband Inductors (#63), the GX0S Series Ultra-Broadband Capacitors (#77), the FFLC Series Medium Power Film Capacitors (#79), the 70-9155 Series Board-to-Board Compression Contacts (#83), and the TransGuard® and StaticGuard® VCLD Series Multilayer Varistors (#101).
A collection of the most popular, innovative, and useful components released over the course of the past 12 months, as identified by Electronic Design editors and readers, the annual Top 101 Components list is compiled by first using Web traffic to rank the components featured on electronicdesign.com and in the Electronic Design "Products of the Week" e-newsletters, and then by surveying readers and tallying their votes for both overall favorites and favorites in several categories, including: accelerometers, connectors, enclosures, sensors, and switches. For the purposes of the annual survey, components are defined as anything that isn't memory or a device that executes a program from memory rather than as anything designed into an electronic product.
"At AVX, our mission is total customer satisfaction through continuous improvement and innovation. So, to be listed six times and have eight of our new product series recognized by the industry-savvy editors at Electronic Design and their readers –our customers– as some of the most innovative and useful components of 2014 is intensely gratifying and an honor that each and every member of our team takes great pride in," said AVX Vice President of Sales, Pete Venuto.
For more information about the eight AVX series recognized on the 2014 Top 101 Components list, please see below.
#14 – Designed to meet stringent cost and performance objectives in a wide variety of harsh commercial, industrial, transportation, SSL, and medical applications, AVX's UL-certified 9296 Series Single Poke Home Wire-to-Board Naked Connectors provide robust electrical and mechanical performance without the added expense of the insulator and its associated assembly costs. AVX Interconnect Wire-to-Board Connectors Catalog: http://www.avx.com/docs/masterpubs/wtb2.pdf.
#63 – Designed to deliver repeatable and reliable ultra-broadband performance up through 40GHz, AVX's GLM and GLN Series High Frequency Ultra-Broadband Inductors provide low insertion loss, excellent matching over multiple octaves of the frequency spectrum, and maximum inductance in a compact physical form, making them ideal for applications including: semiconductor data communications, receiver optical sub-assemblies, transimpedance amplifiers, and test equipment. Datasheets: http://www.avx.com/docs/Catalogs/glmgln.pdf.
#77 – Designed to address DC blocking from ~16KHz to 40GHz, AVX's GX0S Series Ultra-Broadband Capacitors feature X5R characteristics, exhibit extremely low insertion loss and excellent return loss, and are packaged in a compact 0301 case. Ideal applications for the series include: semiconductor data communications, transmit and receive optical subassemblies, transimpedance amplifiers, and test equipment. Datasheet: http://www.avx.com/docs/Catalogs/GX0S.pdf.
#79 – Available in large case sizes up to 35L, AVX's FFLC Series Medium Power Film Capacitors exhibit higher specific energy than equivalent solutions and feature AVX's controlled self-healing technology, enabling safe, high reliability, long lifetime performance with no risk of explosion. Available with a low stray inductance option that enables high frequency ripple current, the FFLC Series is ideal for DC filtering in any variety of power conversion applications, but is particularly well-suited for those that require enhanced safety and reliability, including: rail applications, such as main or auxiliary inverters; new energy applications, such as wind turbines and solar PV inverters; and industrial applications, such as motor drives. Datasheet: http://avx.com/docs/Catalogs/fflc.pdf.
#83 – Impervious to even extreme shock and vibration, AVX's ruggedized, uninsulated, ultra low profile 70-9155 Series Board-to-Board Compression Contacts exhibit lifetimes of up to 1,000 cycles and can be mated vertically or horizontally anywhere on a PCB, providing full connector performance and enhanced design flexibility in a broad range of harsh environment applications, including: portable and handheld industrial devices, board-to-board power and signal connections, and ground connections between PCBs or housings. Datasheet: http://www.avx.com/docs/Catalogs/Single%20Contact%2070-9155.pdf.
#101 – Designed for defense and other applications that cannot accept pure tin components, AVX TransGuard® and StaticGuard® VCLD Series Multilayer Varistors feature Sn/Pb terminations and provide EMI/RFI attenuation and bi-directional overvoltage protection against transient events such as ESD, inductive switching, lightning, and nuclear electromagnetic pulses in a single SMT package. Both series are ideal for use in applications including: IC protection, micro controllers, relays, I/O ports, keyboard protection, portable devices, and radios, among others. Datasheet: http://avx.com/docs/Catalogs/SnPbMultilayerVaristors.pdf.
For more information about the 2014 Electronic Design Top 101 Components, please visit: http://electronicdesign.com/components/top-101-components-2014. For more information about AVX, please visit www.avx.com, call 864-967-2150, or write to One AVX Boulevard, Fountain Inn, S.C. 29644.
About AVX
AVX Corporation is a leading international supplier of electronic passive components and interconnect solutions with 21 manufacturing and warehouse facilities in 11 countries around the world. AVX offers a broad range of devices including capacitors, resistors, filters, timing and circuit protection devices and connectors. The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:AVX).
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