Digi-Key Corporation Pens Distribution Agreement with Future Designs, Inc.THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota and HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – August 8, 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 programs 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.” About Digi-Key CorporationOne 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 at www.digikey.com. About Future Designs, Inc.Future Designs, Inc. is a design and technical services organization founded in 1989 specializing in embedded product design and development. Its team of experienced engineers can handle all your electrical, mechanical, software, manufacturing and systems engineering requirements. MEDIA DOWLOADS: Logos, Images SOURCE: Digi-Key Corporation CONTACT: Steven G. Tsukichi, VP/Marketing, Digi-Key Corporation, 800-338-4105 x1001 (voice), steve.tsukichi@digikey.com; Deen P. Rice, Operations Manager, Future Designs, Inc., 256-883-1240, ext 25 (voice), deen.rice@teamfdi.com |
