Bookmarks
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Electronics
- Electronics manufacturers, etc
Suppliers
- Active
- Go downtown to visit them.
- Allied
- Arrow
- Avnet
- Another supplier.
- Digi-Key
- Medium price, good stock, great delivery. Excellent searching.
- Electro Sonic
- One day they may get their act together again. Mediocre searching.
- Future
- Like a visit to the dentist. Web site only good if you know exactly what you want.
- Jaco
- Mouser
- Newark
- Helpful, mediocre prices, good delivery.
- RFMW
- RF & Microwave. Sirenza, IXYS RF, Cree, Johnson, TriQuint, M/A-Com, P1dB, Aeroflex-Metelics.
- Richardson Electronics Canada
- Sager
- Sayal
- Paul's collection of over-runs and good but surplus parts. Very hit and miss.
- Test Equity
- New and Used Test Equipment
- TTI, Inc.
- Passives and interconnects, the self-proclaimed leader.
- Testforce - Canada
- New and Used Test Equipment
Less Common Manufacturers
Extreme parts: HV, HI, UHRF
- CSI Capacitors - Quality and Reliability explains our capacitors.
- Design and mfg of high quality industrial capacitors, HV, HI.
- General Atomics Electronic Systems
- Standard and custom designed high voltage capacitors, high energy capacitors and metallized capacitors
- NWL Transformers, Inc
- Transformers, capacitors, and power supplies for unique high power, high current, high voltage, and high frequency applications.
RF
- Aethercomm
- High Power Linear and pulsed RF, Microwave and millimeter wave amplifiers - Aethercomm - Aethercomm
- Astrolab
- RF connectors, cables and adaptors.
- CDI Connecting Devices
- RF connectors and cables to 40GHz
- Connor-Winfield
- RF, oscillators, crystals, TCXOs, OCXOs, etc.
- MiniCircuits
- The solid source for RF / IF Microwave components.
- Narda Microwave (L3 Communications)
- RF, microwave, etc.
- Oak Industries
- RF, oscilators, xtals, filters. Parent of Lasertron.
- Raltron Electronics
- Frequency devices: xtals, saw filters, clocks, VCOs, TCXOs, etc.
- Res-Ingenium
- Mostly production and custom UHF
- Sirenza
- RF, precision references.
- ValpeyFisher
- Crystals, clocks, oscillators and filters.
- Vectron
- RF, xtals, oscillators, TCXOs, OCXOs, etc.
- WJ Communications
- Agilent Technologies
- A.K.A. HP
- Allectra Vacuum Components
- Vacuum Electrical Feedthroughs: Sub-Miniature D Type Feedthroughs,Sub-Miniature D Vacuum Side Plugs and Sockets, Thermocouple Pins and Accessories for Sub-D, Sub-D Feedthrough and Accessory Sets, Multi-Pin Feedthroughs with Connectors, Coaxial Feedthroughs BNC, MHV, SHV, SMA, N types, Power & Thermocouple Feedthroughs, Ceramic Breaks and Isolators
- Allen-Bradley
- Passives, pots, resistors, relays.
- Alpha Wire
- Wire, Cable and Tubing
- Altera
- VLSI digital - memory, PLD/FPGA.
- Altera FTP
- FTP full versions, libraries, etc.
- AMCC
- RF, Optical/electrical
- AMD Advance Micro Devices
- Lots of LSI and MSI. Telecom, memory devices.
- AMP
- Connectors. Very good site to use. Gets carried away with the other Amp companies.
- Amphenol
- Connectors
- APC Alberta Printed Circuits
- Favourite board house
- Apex Microtechnology
- Lots of oddball linear such as high voltage high power.
- Astec
- Power supplies.
- Atmel
- Flash memories, RAMs.
- AVX
- Capacitors
- Behlke (fast HV switches)
- Fast High Voltage Solid-State Switches
- Belden wire
- Wire, wire and wire.
- Berg/FCI Connectors
- FCI owns Berg. Today.
- BI Technologies
- Inductors et al. Pots, trimpots.
- Bourns
- Resistors, pots
- Bussmann Fuses
- Fuses, and more.
- C & D Technologies
- Power supply modules.
- Cirrus (formerly Crystal) Semiconductor
- Mostly digital, some DAC/ADC.
- Clare (formerly CP Clare)
- Shotgun selection of oddball parts such as relays, isolators, solar cells, etc.
- Coilcraft
- Coils, inductors, etc.
- Cree, Inc.
- High speed, high voltage, fast semis, using SiC and GaAs.
- Cypress Semiconductor
- Digital SSI to LSI.
- Data I/O
- Programmers for flash, EEPROM, OTP, etc.
- Datel
- Power Supplies, Panel Meters, A/D Components and Analog I/O Boards
- Delcom Engineering
- USB devices: simple USB slave IC, lights, switches, displays.
- Diodes, Inc.
- Discrete semis. Nothing to write home about.
- EAGLE by CadSoft
- Schematic capture and CAD program
- Elantec
- Analog, RF and some digital ICs.
- Ericsson
- Consumer stuff, some digital if you can find it.
- E-Tek Dynamics
- Fibre optics, largely optical components, some electro-optical. Similar to JDS?
- Fair-Rite Products Corp
- Lousy site, hard to read if at all, no real data sheets.
- FCI/Berg Connectors
- FCI owns Berg. Today.
- Fujitsu
- Good for memories.
- Grayhill
- Switches galore.
- Hammond Mfg.
- Racks, Enclosures, Transformers & Outlet Strips
- Hewlett-Packard
- High Price.
- Hitachi
- Hittite
- Microwave digital and analog
- Hyundai
- Might be good for memories. Lousy cars.
- Infrared Data Association
- Everything you wanted to know about the infrared communications standard.
- IRC
- Resistors
- IXYS RF
- High Voltage and RF BJTs and FETs, fast SiC and GaAs.
- J.W. Miller Magnetics
- Coils, inductors, etc.
- Kemet
- Hardware.
- Keystone
- Hardware, connectors.
- Kycon (connectors)
- Connectors.
- Lambda
- Power supplies and modules.
- Littelfuse
- Fuses
- M.S. Kennedy
- High performance and high voltage op amps, video amps, motor drives, linear and switching regulators.
- Melexis
- LED Drivers, Hall Effect ICs, DC Motor Controllers
- Micrel Semiconductor
- A bit of everything in ICs, more analog and RF.
- Microchip
- PIC micros.
- Molex
- Connectors. Good RF too.
- Murata [Erie]
- Capacitors, inductors, thermistors, filters, uwave components, etc.
- NEC/CEL
- California Eastern Labs is the distributor. GHz amps, mixers, up/down converters.
- NEL
- GaAs. A.K.A. NTT Electronics
- NIC Components
- Capacitors, resistors, inductors, thermisters, surge suppressors, diodes.
- NVE (GMR devices)
- GMR spintronics magnetic sensors isolators & mram
- Ohmite
- Resistors.
- Oki Semiconductor
- "Silicon and Optical Devices"
- Omron
- Lots of middle-of-the-road passives - relays, switches, timers, etc. Tends to be cheaper quality and price.
- Philips
- Wide range of analog and digital SSI to VLSI.
- Pico
- Transformers, inductors, DC-DC converters. Expensive but good quality, obscure parts too.
- Power One
- Power supplies.
- Prem Magnetics
- Signal transformers: audio, telecom, etc.
- Pulse: A Technitrol Company
- "...passive magnetic components, has a most complete selection of inductors, transformers, chokes, and filter modules..."
- Rabbit Semiconductor
- Micros, with and without TCP/IP. See also Z-World.
- Raychem
- Circuit protection - resettable fuses.
- Renesas Technology (Hitachi)
- AKA Hitachi. Bit of everything, not too much of anything.
- Rockwell
- MMICs
- ROHM Electronics
- Discrete semis.
- Samsung
- Mostly consumer stuff, some memory, etc.
- Samtec
- Connectors. Good quality.
- SEI Stackpole Electronics
- Passives
- Siemens
- Consumer stuff plus good digital.
- Sipex
- Lots of communication interface ICs.
- Sirenza
- RF, precision references.
- Southwest Microwave
- Connectors, etc.
- Supertex
- High voltage interface and driver ICs.
- Synergy Semiconductors
- Clocks, clock PLLs.
- SynQor DC/DC Converters
- DC/DC converters.
- Technological Arts
- HC11 & HC12 SBCs
- Tektronix
- Scopes, meters.
- Teltone
- Manufacturer, only telecom.
- Thaler Corp.
- High precision ADC, voltage references, pressure sensors, power amplifiers
- Toshiba
- Assorted analog and logic. Reasonable selection.
- Tyco
- et al... Amp, Potter & Brumfield, Macom, Power Systems.
- USB Cables, Computer Cables, Coaxial Cables, Audio Cables, Video Cables and Assemblies, Connectors and Supplies - www.L-com.com
- Factory Direct Pricing, Quantity Discounts, Same Day Shipping, CAD Model and Engineering Drawing downloads, Custom Product Capabilities
- Valor
- Ethernet xformers, 10BaseT supplies, etc. Now owned by Pulse.
- ValpeyFisher
- Crystals, clocks, oscillators and filters.
- Vectron
- RF, xtals, oscillators, TCXOs, OCXOs, etc.
- Vicor
- Power supplies, converters, noisy?
- Vitesse
- ASICS, GaAs
- Wavelength Electronics
- Manufacturer of laser diode driver components, temperature contol components and temperature control instruments
- Weidmuller
- Connectors, big on rail mounted connectors and modules.
- Xicor
- Now Intersil. Flash, bad analog PLDs (there are no good ones!).
- Zetex
- Analog discretes
- Zilog
- Micros etc. Tended towards low end but slowly clawing up ladder.
- Z-World
- Lackie of Rabbit Semiconductors.
Misc
- Wikipedia
- Tunability for DWDM
- Jitter Analysis eSeminar, What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
- High-Voltage Discrete Technology
- Impedance Matching Tutorial
Engineering Chachkas
PCB Calculators
- Calculate max current, skin effect, resistance, etc.
- The CircuitCalculator.com
- Trace width calculator
- PCB Track Width Calculator
- Track width calculator
- Trace Impedance Analyzer for Microwave/RF/PCB Designs
- Use this one.
- Trace Impedance Calculator for Grounded Coplanar Waveguide
- Use the other one, this one is emperical.
- analogZONE
- The Independent Space for Analog Engineering
- EEM On-Line
- Electronic Design Magazine
- Where ED stands for Electronics Design magazine.
- Engineers Edge
- Mechanical Engineering, Design and Manufacturing Data
- GlobalSpec
- Search engine and information resource for the engineering, industrial and technical communities.
- IC Master
- Optics dictionary from Melles Griot
- Optics dDictionary from Phonics.com
- Tech dictionary from Grass Valley
- Technical terms (based around television?)
- U of Toronto, Physics
- Been there, done it.
- Mechanical Engineering Design Guide - Engineer's Handbook
- Online reference tool for mechanical designers. Includes engineering data tables,
material info, manufacturing methods, software guides, design guides and more!!
- Analog Devices
- Good assorted analog and hybrid
- Fairchild Semiconductor
- Assorted analog and mixed signal, logic, and optoelectronics
- Freescale (Motorola)
- Used to be http://Design-NET.com then www.e-motoroloa.com.
- International Rectifier
- Diodes, thyristers, IGBTs, BJTs, FETs. High power/voltage/current. Good quality.
- Intersil
- Analog, but don't use much. Never seems to have right part, no second sources.
- Linear Technology
- The Canadian Tire of analog, but has quality stuff.
- Maxim
- Manufacturer of various ICs and small assemblies, slightly out in left field. Power supply and convertor ICs, supervisory, special function.
- Microsemi Corp -
- RF, microwave. actives, diodes, varacters, etc.
- National Semiconductor
- Analog, some digital. One of the best.
- ON Semiconductor (Motorola)
- Motorola's analog and discrete site.
- ST Micrelectronics (SGS-Thomson)
- New name for SGS-Thomson electronics.
- Texas Instruments
- Analog, digital. One of the best.
- Vishay
- Passives. Bought out tons of companies. Good source.
- Home page
- Digi-Key
- CBC One Toronto
- PhoneValet
- alan OS!
- Personal
- Stats for physics
- Robert Jones's Photo Galleries at pbase.com
- Statistics for www.physics.utoronto.ca (2008-03)
- Awstats - Advanced Web Statistics for www.physics.utoronto.ca (2008-03)