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Free service offers access to parts

By Bill Schweber -- EDN, 5/12/2005

Designers and the rest of the supply chain often struggle to quickly get the components they need, ranging from key processors to less glamorous passives. Beganto Inc offers a sophisticated, Web-based approach that allows individuals to find and obtain many of these components. The searchable database includes active, passive, and even electromechanical components with prices, plus a process for fulfilling sample-quantity requests.

To increase design wins and track sales, manufacturers pay the fees for this service. Users register and can check component availability, and the service e-mails them about changes in status and maintains their bill-of-materials security. The Beganto approach includes no parametric selection, but it links to vendor data sheets, so that designers can check critical specifications.

Beganto Inc, www.beganto.com.