Find Rigol on DesignFast

Find 400+ parts from Rigol on DesignFast. For over 20 years since its establishment, RIGOL strives to meet demands from scientists and developers of electronic products with measurement instruments of superior quality, reasonable prices and the best value. Today, RIGOL has become a highly acclaimed industrial brand that exceeds the expectation from professional customers. With…

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Find Modern Linear on DesignFast

Find 500+ parts from Modern Linear on DesignFast. Modern Linear’s goal is to improve the performance of automated equipment. To achieve this, they develop products that offer superior longevity, improve machine performance, and lower operating costs. Their customer service goals are to always ship from stock or with the shortest manufacturing lead times in the…

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Find Renesas on DesignFast

Find 15,200+ parts from Renesas on DesignFast. Renesas Electronics Corporation delivers trusted embedded design innovation with complete semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices to enhance the way people work and live. A global leader in microcontrollers, analog, power, and SoC products, Renesas provides comprehensive solutions for a broad range of automotive, industrial,…

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Find CUI on DesignFast

Find 8300+ parts from CUI on DesignFast. Motivated by their customers’ needs, CUI is focused on creating ease of access to power supply products and information that help drive an engineer’s design. Their goal is to improve the way power products are purchased today and into the future. Originally starting out as a company that…

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Find Texas Instruments on DesignFast

Find 52,000+ parts from Texas Instruments on DesignFast. For decades, Texas Instruments has operated with a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. They were pioneers in the transition of the world from vacuum tubes to transistors and then to integrated circuits (ICs) – and they’ve been advancing IC…

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Find TE Connectivity on DesignFast

Find 70,000+ parts from TE Connectivity on DesignFast. For more than 75 years, TE Connectivity have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing products that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability and durability, their commitment to progress, and the unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies large and…

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Find Heilind on DesignFast

Find over 1.2 million parts from Heiland on DesignFast. Heilind is one of the world’s leading distributors of connectors, relays, switches, thermal management and circuit protection products, terminal blocks, wire and cable, wiring accessories, and insulation and identification products. We are the industry’s pre-eminent interconnect distributor, with the largest inventory of connector products in North…

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Sager Electronics added to DesignFast

Now find over 3.5 million parts from Sager Electronics on DesignFast. Sager Electronics is a North American electronic component distributor of interconnect, power and electromechanical products, and provider of value-add solutions.

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Applied Motion Products Stepper Drive Lines added to DesignFast

Applied Motion Products Stepper Drives

We’re pleased to have added over 1200 new stepper drive types from Applied Motion Products to DesignFast. Applied Motion specializes in high-precision, cost-effective motion control products. Applied Motion offers a full complement of stepper and servo, drives, motors, controllers, gearheads, and power supplies to serve a diverse industrial and OEM customer base. More at Applied Motion.

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What is DesignFast?

DesignFast

DesignFast makes component selection simple. We are a tool for engineers to search across a list of aggregated components from trusted distributors with some of our data powered by ECIA. Engineers can make full-text searches across millions of components available in the DesignFast database and drill down to find a specific piece for their needs.…

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Modern Linear added to DesignFast

Modern Linear

DesignFast now includes over 550 products from Modern Linear. Modern Linear’s goal is to improve the performance of automated equipment. Modern Linear works to improve machine performance and lower operating costs. Their mission is to provide all of our customers with high quality, durable products, and outstanding customer service. More can be found at modernlinear.com

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Duplicate Distributor Dropdown Feature

designfast feature

Design Fast now consolidates distributors who have multiple package types into a single root distributor for each search result. If a distributor appears multiple times, a grey icon will be displayed next to the distributors name with the number of total package types provided. When you click on the icon, the distributor results will expand,…

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Full-Text Search Improvement

During our early stage development we decided to adopt ElasticSearch as our NoSQL document store and full-text search engine. Elastic is backed by Apache Lucene, which provides the indexing and search feature functionality for ElasticSearch. The Elastic ecosystem has made it easy for developers to ingest and query documents containing a variety of data types,…

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Top Part Searches September on DesignFast

multilayered ceramic capacitor

Here is a selection from the top parts searched through the month of September. 08055A200F4T2A 1N4001G 2N2219A 2N7000 B43586-S0688-Q3 BZT52C12-7-F CER ENG KIT 46 IRF510PBF IRF520 LM317LZG T520A107M006ATE045

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Why use an e-fuse? Part 1

This article was originally posted at EEWorldOnline.com SEPTEMBER 22, 2018 BY Bill Schweber The electronic fuse is a powerful and versatile tool in the designer’s kit, but building one requires careful selection of the core amplifier; IC embodiments solve the problem. The traditional thermal-based fuse, Figure 1, is a low-cost, widely used, well-understood, highly reliable, easy-to-apply circuit- protection component.…

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