Connective Peripherals products available from element14

element14 has announced a global distribution agreement with Connective Peripherals, thus enhancing its range of connectivity products for customers.

Headquartered in Singapore, Connective Peripherals is a supplier of communications and instrumentation products, with expertise in serial connectivity solutions. The company’s products encompass adapter boards and cables delivering connectivity between USB and serial interfaces, plus USB-based oscilloscopes, data loggers and logic analysers. They are designed to simplify system debug and maintenance of equipment featuring serial ports by providing simple USB connectivity.

The addition of Connective Peripherals expands element14’s existing portfolio of products for field and lab-based engineers in a wide variety of applications where it is necessary to connect to instruments or systems via serial ports to carry out field-based configuration, upgrades and maintenance. The product range enables modern PCs and laptops to use a USB Type C port to connect directly to legacy serial interfaces such as RS232/RS422/RS485, CANbus, SPI, I²C or JTAG. All adaptors and cables feature built-in electronics, making it easy to connect to any equipment. The cables are also available with connectors, bare ends or single-pole female receptacles, enabling use with systems that offer D-type connectors or header connectors or which require wires to be soldered to the board.

The range of connectivity solutions from Connective Peripherals now in stock at element14 includes:

• the ES-U-1001 family of full-speed USB to RS232 adapters, suitable for a wide variety of equipment with serial management and debug ports;
• the USB Type C High Speed MPSSE, which provides a fast, simple way to connect devices with 3.3 V digital interfaces to USB-C;
• the USB2-F-7x01 Full Speed USB to 1-Port CANBus Adapter, which provides a simple method of adapting CANbus devices to USB.
   

“Connective Peripherals is an important addition to element14’s connectivity portfolio,” said Lee Turner, Global Head of Semiconductors and Single Board Computing at Farnell and element14. “Their broad range of simple to use adapter boards and cables is suitable for a range of industries and applications, delivering connectivity between USB and serial interfaces. Connective Peripherals’ specialist range of adapter boards can extend existing product lifetimes and speed up new designs, enabling our customers to bring new products to market much faster.”

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