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THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN and SUNNYVALE, CA – Digi-Key Corp. and Fujitsu Microelectronics America (FMA) have signed a distribution agreement.

Digi-Key will now distribute FMA’s MB95200 series of 8-bit microcontrollers and FMA1127 digital touch-screen controllers.

The MB95200 series has low power requirements and high reliability. Applications include home appliances, electrical tools and consumer healthcare products.

The FMS1127 is the first digital touch-screen sensor IC and was developed for mobile devices including PDAs and mobile phones.

WILSONVILLE, OR – Mentor Graphics Corp. appointed Trident Techlabs as its distributor in India.

Trident will oversee the PCB and ASIC/FPGA product portfolio including: Expedition Enterprise and PADS; ModelSim; Questa and HyperLynx.

The agreement will expand Mentor’s customer base to include Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune.

SAN FRANCISCO – Mentor Graphics CEO Wally Rhines may have coined his own corollary to Moore's Law: The number of transistors produced per electronics engineer increases by four orders of magnitude every 25 years.

Read more: Rhines' Law? Mentor CEO Tackles Design Fallacies

WILSONVILLE, OR – Dr. Walden Rhines, CEO and chairman of Mentor Graphics Corp., will be the keynote speaker at Semicon West 2009, held July 14-16 in San Francisco.

Read more: Mentor's CEO to Keynote Semicon West 2009

WILSONVILLE, OR – Mentor Graphics Corp. has appointed Beijing Ruihesoft Co. its distributor in China.

Ruihesoft will handle PADS PCB design flow and the HyperLynx product line for high-speed signal interconnect simulation. The partnership will also expand Mentor’s coverage in the country, adding an additional five major cities in eastern and northern China.

Ruihesoft provides application software services in design, research and development. The company has six branches in China, as well as an extensive sales and service network.

LONDON -- Electronics distributor Premier Farnell is accepting scholarship applications from students worldwide who are registered in a full-time electrical and electronics engineering course in the 2009 entry year.

The $30,000 in scholarship funds come from prize money that remained after a student division winner was not named for the 2008 Live EDGE Electronic Design Global Environment challenge. The scholarship awards will be evenly distributed between Asia, Europe and the Americas, allotting $10,000 for each region or four $2,500 individual scholarships per region.

Scholarship information, including the application form and terms and conditions, are available on the element14 website. Applications will be accepted through Aug. 31 and winners will be announced Oct. 1.

Applicants will be required to answer one of three questions. They can explain the importance of their electrical engineering degree in today and tomorrow’s society and how they plan in using it to better the environment. Alternatively, they can either explain how they feel electronics design will change in the coming years or what new technology will have the biggest impact on electronics in the near future.

“Encouraging innovation and forward thinking among engineering students is paramount to the development and sustainability of future generations of design engineers,” said Harriet Green, chief executive of Premier Farnell. “The Live EDGE scholarship fund will help to encourage and develop 12 students enabling them to continue or start their education for the year to come. We are excited that through these scholarships we are able to support students as they strive to become leaders in critical environmental design practices.”

Premier Farnell is the parent company of Farnell, Newark, Premier Electronics, Farnell-Newark CPC and MCM.