- DigiKey a global leader in electronic components distribution
- Extends EMASS’ reach to more customers, adding a global, self-serve sales channel
- EMASS had 33 active customer opportunities, with eight customers at Design-In
- EMASS intends to work with DigiKey to add further ECS-DoT products
Nanoveu’s (ASX: NVU) wholly-owned subsidiary, Embedded A.I. Systems (EMASS), has signed DigiKey as its global distributor for ECS-DoT-22, EMASS’ 22-nanometer ultra-low-power edge-AI system-on-chip (SoC).
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US-headquartered DigiKey is one of the first places electronics engineers go to find and buy the components and development tools for a new product. It offers more than 17.4 million components from over 3,000 manufacturers, with fast shipment worldwide, and serves more than a million customers each year, including engineers, designers, procurement professionals, makers and students.
Listing the ECS-DoT-22-EVB on DigiKey places EMASS’ edge-AI chip alongside the sensors, microcontrollers and wireless modules that engineers are already selecting for their designs. An engineer anywhere in the world can now find ECS-DoT-22, order an evaluation board and begin testing it, without first needing to contact EMASS’ sales team.
A customer adopting a new chip moves through set stages: it assesses whether the chip suits its application, tests it on an evaluation kit, designs it into a specific product (‘design-in’) and, finally, enters production with the chip on its bill of materials (‘design win’), the point at which volume revenue begins.
The evaluation board is the first hands-on step. It is the hardware an engineering team uses to run its own sensors and AI models on ECS-DoT-22 and measure performance and power consumption before committing to a design. Making the board easier to obtain widens the number of customers who can enter that process.
The board is supported by EMASS’ feature-rich integrated development environment (IDE), so engineers can start software development and begin working with AI models right out of the box.
“Our priority remains converting the customers already at Design-In into design wins. DigiKey complements that work by giving engineers worldwide a self-serve way to obtain and test ECS-DoT-22, bringing potential new customers into evaluation without first needing to engage our sales team,” Nanoveu’s CEO of Semiconductor Technologies, Mark Goranson, said.
“It also establishes a global distribution channel that we intend to build on with production ECS-DoT-22 devices as they become available.”
EMASS had 33 active customer opportunities across wearables and health, smart home and security, computing and consumer devices, industrial, fleet and asset tracking, and hearables and audio. Eight customers were at the Design-In stage, with engineering teams working with ECS-DoT-22 on specific product designs, and a further three were testing the chip on evaluation kits. The Design-In and Evaluation group includes multinational technology companies with annual revenues in the billions of US dollars.
“End users are designing ECS-DoT- 22 into battery-powered products that have to stay aware without draining the battery, from wearables and hearables to smart locks and asset trackers. Our evaluation boards are already with customers’ engineering teams, and bringing ECS-DoT-22 to DigiKey reflects the demand we are seeing. It extends our reach to wider engineers who want to design in our chip,” EMASS’ vice president of Sales and Marketing, Scott Smyser, said.
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