FDI Partners

FDI has a strong group of partners who are well respected in the industry, including:

NXP Authorized Design Consultant

NXP and Future Designs, Inc. (FDI) have a rich history of collaboration across many projects and applications. FDI is one of only a few companies to have been selected by NXP as Design Consultants in North America.

Renesas Preferred Partner Program (PPP)

Future Designs, Inc. has built a strong partnership with Renesas over many years of collaboration. One such collaboration was the development and design of a capacitive-touch button test board for a customer who were dissatisfied with their original design.

Note: Not actual customer design

FreeRTOS Partner

FreeRTOS is one of the most widely used real-time operating systems in embedded design, known for its small footprint, broad hardware support, and open-source MIT license.

FDI is a recognized FreeRTOS partner, integrating it into the µEZ® and SuRG product families to give customers a choice between a free, open-source RTOS and a safety-certified commercial option.

Read more of FreeRTOS and FDI’s relationship to them here.

Graphics Partner

LVGL is a lightweight, open-source graphics library for embedded systems that delivers responsive widgets and high performance on any processor or operating system. LVGL is the primary graphics library used in FDI’s SuRG product family.

FDI’s SuRG42-CP running the LVGL chart demo.

Learn more on LVGL’s official website.

SAFERTOS

SAFERTOS is a safety certified Real Time Operating System (RTOS) for embedded processors. It delivers superior performance and pre-certified dependability, whilst utilizing minimal resources.
SAFERTOS gives FDI’s customers a path to certification for medical, industrial, and automotive designs without re-architecting their embedded software.

Read more of how FDI and SAFERTOS complement each other here.

SEGGER

FDI has a rich history working with SEGGER and has utilized their software, programmers, probes for many years.

Read more about SEGGER’s hardware and how FDI utilizes it here.

STMicroelectronics

Future Designs, Inc. (FDI) partners with STMicroelectronics to bring low-power, high-performance embedded GUI solutions to market. FDI’s engineering team has direct design experience with ST’s STM32U5 series microcontrollers.

Read more of the partnership between FDI and STMicroelectronics here.

ARM Developer Program

FDI’s membership in the ARM Developer Program reflects over 15 years of hands-on design experience with ARM-based microcontrollers across FDI’s customer projects. This connection gives FDI early access to ARM resources to help enable developers get their ARM-Powered® products to market faster.

Read more about FDI and ARM Developer Program here.