Electronics Buyers' Guide (EBG) - Directory of the South African Electronics Industry
Avnet Silica

Block 13, Pinewood Office Park, 33 Riley Road, Woodmead

tel:  
+27 11 319 8600
email:  
[email protected]
url:  
www.avnet.com/wps/portal/silica

Sale of: a broad range of semiconductors, optoelectronics, GPS, GSM and embedded products and components.


Cape Town

tel: +27 21 689 4141
[email protected]
Durban

tel: +27 31 266 8104
[email protected]
Hall, Philip
Johannesburg Regional Sales Manager
[email protected]
Kuhn, Brandon
Country Manager
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2J Antennas
(Shared Agency)
Alliance Memory
(Shared Agency)
Allied Vision
(Shared Agency)
AMD
(Shared Agency)
Antenova
(Shared Agency)
APM Communication
(Sole Agency)
Applied Micro
(Sole Agency)
Arduino
(Shared Agency)
AUO
(Sole Agency)
AzureWave Technologies
(Shared Agency)
Cirrus Logic
(Sole Agency)
Coherent
(Sole Agency)
Congatec
(Shared Agency)
Delkin Devices
(Sole Agency)
Dialog Semiconductor
(Shared Agency)
Digi Int.
(Shared Agency)
Diodes Inc.
(Shared Agency)
Echelon
(Sole Agency)
Elmos
(Shared Agency)
Finisar
(Sole Agency)
Gaggione
(Shared Agency)
Greenliant
(Shared Agency)
GSI Technology
(Shared Agency)
H&D Wireless
(Sole Agency)
Halo Electronics
(Shared Agency)
Insight-SiP
(Sole Agency)
Intel
(Shared Agency)
ISSI
(Shared Agency)
LEDiL
(Shared Agency)
LiFud
(Sole Agency)
Lumileds
(Shared Agency)
Macronix
(Shared Agency)
Marvell
(Sole Agency)
MaxLinear
(Shared Agency)
Mercury Systems
(Sole Agency)
Microchip Technology
(Shared Agency)
Micron Technology
(Shared Agency)
Microsoft Windows Embedded
(Shared Agency)
Microtips Technology
(Shared Agency)
MiroMico
(Sole Agency)
Navitas
(Sole Agency)
Nexperia
(Shared Agency)
Nordic Semiconductor
(Shared Agency)
NXP Semiconductors
(Shared Agency)
Octavo Systems
(Sole Agency)
onsemi
(Shared Agency)
Otava
(Sole Agency)
Panasonic Industry
(Shared Agency)
Panjit
(Shared Agency)
Qorvo
(Shared Agency)
Quectel Wireless Solutions
(Shared Agency)
Raytac
(Shared Agency)
Renesas Electronics
(Shared Agency)
Rohm Semiconductor
(Shared Agency)
SanDisk
(Shared Agency)
SECO
(Sole Agency)
Sekonix
(Shared Agency)
Semtech
(Shared Agency)
Seoul Semiconductor
(Shared Agency)
SiTime
(Shared Agency)
SK Hynix
(Sole Agency)
STMicroelectronics
(Shared Agency)
TD Next
(Sole Agency)
Teledyne E2V
(Shared Agency)
Torex Semiconductor
(Shared Agency)
Transcend
(Shared Agency)
Tria
(Shared Agency)
u-blox
(Shared Agency)
URT
(Sole Agency)
WeEn Semiconductors
(Shared Agency)
Western Digital
(Shared Agency)
Wi2Wi
(Sole Agency)
Wyless
(Shared Agency)
Section - Components
-Accelerometers/gyroscopes
-Amplifiers
- audio power
- audio small signal
- buffer
- chopper
- compression
- current
- differential
- digitally controlled
- instrumentation
- isolation
- log/antilog
- microphone
- operational
- programmable
- sample and hold
- sense
- track and hold
- video
- voltage controlled
- wideband
-Analogue multiplexers
-Analogue multipliers/dividers
-Analogue switches
-Arrays
- diode
- transistor
-Comparators
-Consumer ICs
- audio
- radio
- TV/video
-Digitally controlled potentiometers
-Energy metering
-Optocouplers/isolators
-Oscillators
-Phase locked loop (PLL)
-Special functions
-Voltage comparators
-Voltage references
-Buffers
-Bus Controllers/Interfaces
-Character generators
-Clock oscillators/dividers
-CMOS
-Comparators (digital)
-Converters
- ADCs
- Code
- DACs
- Multichannel
-Counters
-Data acquisition systems ICs
-Disk drive components
-Display drivers/controllers
-DSP functions
-Dynamically reconfigurable logic
-ECL (emitter coupled logic)
-Encoders/decoders
-Error check circuits
-Flip-flops
-GaAs
-Graphics ICs
-Image processing
-Interface ICs
-Inverters
-Latches
-Line drivers/receivers
-Logic gates
-Low volt logic
-Management ICs
-MEMS
-Microcomputer chipsets
-Multiplexers
-Multivibrators
-Parity generators/checkers
-Peripheral drivers
-Pull-up (bus line)
-Pulse differentiators
-Pulse-width regulators
-Real-time clock/calendar
-RS232 drivers
-Schmitt triggers
-SCSI chips
-Shift registers
-Terminators - active
-Touch controllers
-Transceiver devices
-Translators (TTL-CMOS-ECL)
-TTL
-Diodes
- Arrays
- Fast recovery
- FREDFET
- PIN
- PN junction
- Rectifier
- Schottky
- Shockley
- Step recovery
- Trigger
- Tunnel
- Varactor
- Zener regulator
-Power
- Ge-bipolar
- IGBT
- IGBT modules
- IPMs
- MOSFET
- Rectifier modules
- Si-bipolar
-Thyristors/SCRs
-Transistors
- Darlington
- Dual complementary
- FET
- GTO thyristors
- HEMT
- HF/video
- High voltage
- Low noise
- Matched pairs
- SHF/microwave
- Small signal
- Unijunction
- VHF/UHF
-Triacs
-Couplers
-Multiplexers/duplexers
-Optical fibres
- glass (multi/single-mode)
- plastic
-Switches
-Bus termination networks
-Delay lines
- fixed
- passive
-EMI/RFI suppression filters
- power line
- signal line
-Equalisers
- delay
-Filters, active
- analogue continuous
- analogue switched capacitor
- digital (FIR)
- digital programmable
-Filters, passive
- crystal
- dataline
- feed-through plate
- LC
- piezo-ceramic
- SAW
-Matching networks
-RC networks
-Transformers - power
- Flyback
- Switchmode (DC-DC)
- Toroidal
-Transformers - signal
- Balance-unbalance (balun)
- Buck-boost, HF
- Pulse (incl trigger)
- Telecom specialised
-Converters
- frequency-voltage
- LVDT-digital
- resolver
- RMS-DC
- synchro
- voltage-frequency
-Current transmitter ICs
-Data acquisition system ICs
-Drivers
- lamp
- linear motor
- power MOSFET
- relay
- solenoid
- stepper motor
-Electricity metering ICs
-Electromagnetic display IC
-Fuzzy controller ICs
-Hall-effect devices
-IR remote control ICs
-IR sensor chips
-Light activated switches
-Motor control (DSP + memory)
-Motor speed controllers
-Multiplexers
-Opto-isolators
-Power op amps
-Pressure transducer ICs
-Servo amplifiers/controllers
-Signal conditioners
-Smoke detector ICs
-Soft-start circuits
-Strain-guage conditioners
-Switch - solid-state (SSR)
- I/O switching
- intelligent power control
- proportional control
-Temperature transducer
-Thermocouple compensation
-Timers
-Touch control (dimmer, etc)
-Key action available
- Capacitive
-Keyboards
- Customised
- Flat panel
- Short travel
-Keypads
- Custom capabilities
- Custom legends
- EMI shielded
- Handheld terminals
- Harsh environment
- Illuminated
- Membrane
- Outdoor (weatherproof)
- Standard
- Vandalproof
-CPU
- ARM
- CISC
- RISC
-Features available
- 3 Ph Waveform Generation
- A-D conversion
- ALU
- Application specific designs
- Bus driver
- Cache
- Clock/calendar generator
- Counter(s)
- Customisable micro
- D-A conversion
- Display drivers (LCD, LED, VFT)
- DMA
- DSP core
- Embeddable device
- Encryption/Decryption micros
- Fully integrated MCU module
- Hold function
- In-system flash programmable
- Interrupt priority/control
- Low voltage operation
- Memory expansion
- Modular core
- Motor control
- On-chip flash
- On-chip ROM/EPROM
- On-chip SRAM
- OTP
- Pipelined memory interface
- Power management control
- Power save modes
- Power-on reset (POR)
- PWM
- Radiation hardened
- Real-time clock
- ROMless
- RTOS (realtime operation)
- Security
- Sound generation
- Timer(s)
- Touch sense/control
- UART
- USB
- Watchdog timer
-I/O features
- Analogue
- Digital
- External bus
- High speed digital
- Parallel
- Serial
-Microcontrollers
- 4-bit bus width
- 8-bit bus width
- 12/14/16-bit bus width
- 12-bit bus width
- 16/8-bit bus width
- 16-bit bus width
- 32-bit bus width
- 64-bit bus width
-Microprocessors
-Processor types
- Digital signal processors
- Fuzzy MCUs
- Math coprocessors
- Neural nodes
-Programmable system chips
-Support
- Assemblers
- Compilers - Assembler
- Compilers - C,C++
- Development system
- Evaluation boards
- Hardware programmers
- In-circuit emulator
- Integrated development environment (IDE)
- Realtime kernel (executive)
- Source level debug
- System execution analyser
-Diodes
- PIN
- Schottky barrier
- varactor
-Microwave transistors
- bipolar
- FET
- GaAs
- power
- small signal
-Clock crystals
-Frequency control elements
- oscillator modules
- piezo-ceramic
- quartz crystals
- SAW resonators
-Microphones
-Charge coupled devices (CCD)
-Display modules
- alphanumeric
- digital
- graphics
-Display screens
- backlight panels
- electroluminescent (EL)
- LCD - colour
- LCD - monochrome
- LCD - prototyping kits
- LED/OLED displays
- plasma display (PDP)
- video walls
-Flat panel computer screens
-Indicators
- incandescent (lamps)
- LED types
-Integrated photo-electronics
-IR detectors/emitters
-Lasers
- semiconductor diode
-Light sensor ICs
-Optical system components
- lens elements
- optical glass
-Opto-couplers
-Pen-touch screens
-Photo-conductive (LDRs)
-Photo-diodes/arrays
-Photo-emissive detectors
-Photo-modulators
-Photo-multipliers
-Photo-transistors
-Photo-voltaic diodes
-Solid-state lighting
- arrays
- discrete LED/OLED
- light-emitting polymer
- luminaires and light engines
-Touch screens
-Analogue cell arrays
-Custom ICs
- Cell-based ASICs
- Multicore cell-based ASICs (SOC)
-FPGAs
- antifuse-based
- dynamically reconfigurable
- EEPROM-based
- Flash-based
- in-system programmable
- SRAM-based
-Mixed signal arrays
-PLDs
- CPLD
- discrete PAL
- EEPLD (EEPROM-based)
- EPLD (EPROM-based)
- FPLA
- GAL
- paged PLA
- partitioned PAL
- PLA
- Radiation-hardened
- SRAM-based
-Programmable system chips
-Standard cells
- analogue
- BiCMOS
- bipolar
- CMOS
- digital
- EPROM/EEPROM
- GaAs
- mixed signal
-Support
- Mask-programmable (MPGA, MPPLD)
- Migration FPGA-GA
- Programmers - PLD
-Digital potentiometers (see Digital IC section)
-AC-DC converters (IC)
-DC-DC converters (IC)
-Drivers - power MOSFET
-Power factor preregulators
-Power regulators
- Burst-fire control
- Phase control
-Power supervision
-PWM controllers
-Rectifier bridges
-Resonant-mode controllers
-Switchmode controllers
-Voltage regulators
- Adjustable
- Fixed
- Linear
- Switching
-Zero-crossing triggers
-Transient voltage suppressors
- Power line modules
- Signal line modules
- Zener
-DRAM (dynamic)
-EEPROM (electrically erasable)
-EPROM (OTP)
-EPROM (UV erasable)
-FIFO registers
-Flash EEPROM
-Flash EPROM
-Flash memory cards
-Flash NAND
-FRAM (ferroelectric)
-IC memory cards
-Memory programmers
-NV SRAM (non-volatile)
-Parallel EEPROM
-PROM (fuse programmable)
-ROM (mask programmable)
-SDRAM (synchronous)
-Serial EEPROM
-SRAM (static)
-Analogue line interfaces
-Datacoms processing ICs
-Digital line interfaces
-Echo cancellation
-Fax chipsets
-Interfacing ICs
-ISDN circuit ICs
-Modem ICs/set
-Networking function chips
-Telephone ICs/sets - Dialling circuits
-Telephone ICs/sets - Feature enhancement
-Telephone ICs/sets - Scrambling/encryption
-Telephone ICs/sets - Speech circuit
-Telephone ICs/sets - Tone ringer
Section - Computing technology
-Operating systems
- Other
-Software routine libraries
Section - Enclosures & packaging hardware
-Box enclosures
- Metal construction
- Plastic construction
- Portable
- Screw-down
- Wall-mounted
-Cases/housings
- Benchtop
- Handheld computer
- Handheld instrument
- Instrument
- Metal construction
- Office aesthetics
- Plastic construction
- Portable
-Desks, consoles, workstations
-EMC management
- Conductive coatings
- Shielding enclosures
-Thermal management
- Fans and blowers - axial, tube-axial
- Heatsink extrusions
Section - Industrial electronics & equipment
-Sensors/transducers
- Acceleration
- Angular displacement
- Angular velocity
- CO2
- Current
- Flow
- Hall-effect
- Humidity
- Infrared
- Magnetic
- Motion
- Oxygen
- Pressure
- Proximity
- Temperature
- Tilt
- Ultrasonic
- Vibration
-Thermal imagers
Section - Power supplies & batteries
-AC-DC converter
-DC-DC converter
-Encapsulated PCB-mounting
-Features
- EMI filtered
-Output range
- 0-5 V
- 5-50 V
- 50-500 V
- 0-50 W
- 50-100 W
- 100-200 W
- 200 W+
-Protection
- Crowbar
- Foldback current
- Fused
- Input surge
- Input-output isolation
- Output overvoltage
- Thermal cut-out
- Undervoltage lock-out
-Regulated
-Single output
-Switched-mode
Section - Wireless systems & components
-Ancillary products & services
- Crystals
- IoT/M2M dashboards
- SIM/eSIM management
-Antenna systems
- HF Tx/Rx antennas
- Microwave antennas
- Mobile radio antennas
- VHF antennas
-Point-to-point links
- Geographic positioning (GPS)
-Amplifiers
- IF
- Isolation
- Low noise
- Power
- Wideband
-Attenuators
- PIN diode
- Voltage variable
-Converters (up, down)
-Detectors
-Discriminators
-Filter modules
- Narrowband
-Frequency translators
-Limiters/detectors
-Oscillators
- Dielectric resonator
- Phase locked
-Antenna systems
-Filters
- SAW
-Switches
- PIN diode
-2G-only/2G-fallback modules
-3G modules
-4G/LTE modules
-Alarm encoder radio ICs
-Analogue filter ICs
-Analogue signal processors
-Audio/digital codec
-Bluetooth
-Cordless telephone chipsets
-CTCSS signalling modems
-Digital baseband ICs
-FFSK modems
-Frequency synthesizer ICs
-Global navigation satellite system (GNSS)
-GSM modules
-Low power, wide area (LPWA)
-Modem
-NFC
-Paging receiver chipsets
-Selcall encoder/decoders
-Selcall signalling modems
-Single-chip RF receivers/transmitters
-Wi-Fi
-Wireless transceiver modules
News from Avnet Silica:
The role of bidirectional charging in the evolving energy landscape
29 August 2025, Power Electronics / Power Management, Avnet Silica

As reliance on renewable sources like wind and solar continues to grow, the need for efficient energy flow and storage solutions has become more critical than ever.

MCX C Series development board
30 June 2025, DSP, Micros & Memory, Avnet Silica

The FRDM-MCXC444 is a compact and scalable development board for rapid prototyping of MCX C444 MCU from NXP Semiconductors.

Cutting-edge hybrid capacitors
30 June 2025, Passive Components, Avnet Silica

Panasonic Industry recently announced the launch of the ZVU Series Hybrid Capacitors, a cutting-edge solution tailored to meet the escalating demands of advanced electronic systems.

Hardware quantum resistance to embedded controllers
30 May 2025, DSP, Micros & Memory, Avnet Silica

To help system architects meet evolving security demands, Microchip Technology has developed its MEC175xB embedded controllers with embedded immutable post-quantum cryptography support.

Bluetooth module brilliance
30 April 2025, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT, Avnet Silica

Following the company’s popular PAN1780, the PAN1783 Bluetooth 5.3 Low Energy (LE) module from Panasonic is based on the Nordic nRF5340 single chip controller.

NXP’s latest wireless chip solution
30 April 2025, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT, Avnet Silica

NXP’s IW610 wireless chip solution features a 1x1 dual-band Wi-Fi 6 radio subsystem, offering improved network efficiency, reduced latency and extended range.

Winner of the Advanced Electronics Challenge
30 April 2025, News, Avnet Silica

Avnet Silica has named Hydronauten winner of the Advanced Electronics Challenge for breakthrough AI-driven vibration damping technology.

Microprocessors with advanced graphics and connectivity
28 March 2025, DSP, Micros & Memory, Avnet Silica

Microchip’s SAMA7D65 MPU runs a 1 GHz Arm Cortex-A7 core and integrates MIPI DSI, LVDS display interfaces and 2D GPU for HMI applications.

Artificial intelligence meets embedded development
28 March 2025, DSP, Micros & Memory, Avnet Silica

Microchip Technology is leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to assist software developers and embedded engineers in writing and debugging code with the launch of its MPLAB AI Coding Assistant.

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