(Thief River Falls, Minnesota and Huntsville, Alabama — August 08, 2006)
Digi-Key Corporation and Future Designs, Inc. (FDI) today announced the signing of a global distribution agreement. One of the world’s fastest growing electronic component distributors, Digi-Key Corporation ships product to more than 140 countries around the globe.
FDI is a design consultant for a wide variety of products from Philips Semiconductors. FDI supplies in-circuit USB programmers for the P98LPC900 family, the LPC2000 ARM7 family and the P89C51 family of Flash microcontrollers from Philips as well as LCD demo kits, protocol converters, I²C software and development boards.
Digi-Key is stocking FDI’s USB in-circuit programmers and an LCD demonstration kit. These products are available in both Digi-Key’s print and online catalogs.
“We are excited to add FDI to our line card,” said Mark Larson, Digi-Key president and COO. “This agreement will afford us the opportunity to provide Digi-Key’s customers with low cost, easy-to-use programming systems for Philips microcontrollers.” “Having our products available through Digi-Key greatly expands our presence with the worldwide engineering community,” said Kent Lowman, Future Designs director. “The Digi-Key catalog and Web site are critical elements on every design engineer’s desk, and this agreement should help extend our offering of development tools to support additional Philips products.”
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About Digi-Key Corporation
One of the world’s fastest growing distributors of electronic components, Digi-Key has earned its reputation as an industry leader through its total commitment to service and performance. As a full-service provider of both prototype/design and production quantities of electronic components, Digi-Key has been ranked #1 for Overall Performance for 15 consecutive years from among the nation’s more than 200 distributors (EE Times Distribution Study/ May 2006). Offering more than 700,000 parts from over 330 quality name-brand manufacturers Digi-Key’s commitment to inventory is unparalleled. Access to the company’s broad product offering is available 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week at Digi-Key’s top-rated Web site www.digikey.com.