MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 15, 2009-- Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) has partnered with National Semiconductor Corp. to offer an online design toolset that delivers complete lighting and power solutions for Arrow’s customers. Arrow’s Optimized WEBENCH Designer is available now at www.arrownac.com/webench, and is supported by the breadth of Arrow’s line card and supply capabilities.

Arrow’s Optimized WEBENCH eliminates the need for a design engineer to perform tedious hand calculations by offering expert assistance with extensive circuit design libraries. Now engineers can simultaneously create highly efficient designs and optimize them for the best price/value and delivery for every possible design configuration -- with real-time updates.

The Arrow Optimized WEBENCH tool is supported by more than 10,000 components from Arrow manufacturers in lighting (Avago Technologies, Cree, Everlight Electronics CO., Ltd., Light-On, and OSRAM Opto Semiconductors), inductors (Bourns, Cooper Bussmann, TDK, and Vishay), diodes (Diodes Inc., International Rectifier, ON Semiconductor, and Vishay) and passives (AVX, EPCOS, Kemet, Murata, Panasonic, TDK, and Vishay). Arrow’s Optimized WEBENCH tool assists with every step of the design process.

“At Arrow, we identify opportunities to partner with key suppliers to provide tools and resources that help our customers save time and get products to market faster,” said Martin Rohde, vice president of eBusiness for Arrow Electronics. “The Optimized WEBENCH launch to Arrow customers is the next step in our ongoing eBusiness initiative to develop new solutions that help our customers achieve their goals.”

“WEBENCH tools have been helping engineers create designs since 1999, but the Arrow Optimized WEBENCH will now deliver even greater value to Arrow customers with supply, delivery, and complete system pricing included,” said Phil Gibson, vice president of technical sales for National. “Arrow is the first to optimize WEBENCH through their complete supply chain, providing significant benefit to their customers.”

To access the Optimized WEBENCH Designer, visit www.arrownac.com/webench.

About Arrow Electronics, Inc.

Arrow Electronics (www.arrow.com) is a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Headquartered in Melville, N.Y., Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for approximately 800 suppliers and 130,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial customers through a global network of more than 340 locations in 53 countries and territories.

Source: Arrow Electronics, Inc.

Arrow Electronics, Inc.
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