Wednesday, April 16, 2014: RS Components (RS), the world’s leading high service distributor of electronics & maintenance products, and Fairchild Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of high performance power & mobile semiconductor solutions, have collaborated to create a set of complete reference designs for seven of Fairchild’s most popular evaluation boards.
This collaboration is a major milestone in the industry’s adoption of the Open Source hardware style as;
* Through this collaboration, the DesignSpark community of over 250,000 EDEs has access to highly accurate and credible technical information from Fairchild, enabling faster design times
* These evaluation boards are now readily accessible to every engineer for insertion as ready-made blocks – with full bill of materials (BOM), pre-populated with ordering data – directly into their designs
* Engineers will be able to save design time by re-using the design examples
* Designers can rapidly introduce Fairchild technology with manufacturer’s recommended hardware setup into new electronic products
* Designs can be freely modified to suit their specific requirements
RS Components maintains a well-stocked inventory of Fairchild parts
* Currently around 2000 Fairchild parts in stock
* All 2000 parts are backed up by ModelSource PCB library files, allowing rapid integration into DesignSpark PCB, Altium, PADS, OrCAD & other popular ECAD formats
* Eventually the entire Fairchild product line will be available from stock for same-day despatch
* Full coverage of ModelSource symbols and footprints is planned for all newly introduced Fairchild products
