The benefactor is Arrow Electronics Northern Europe which has launched its Testdrive development tool evaluation programme as a risk-free opportunity to find the answers to critical design questions early in the product development cycle.
The offer allows customers to gain hands-on experience of evaluation kits, development boards, reference designs and others tools in their own lab environment prior to committing tool budget to a specific vendor's solution and unproven silicon architectures.
The Testdrive offer will also allow access to development tool capabilities and usability, assistance in estimating function and implementation requirements, and local application and engineering support.
"Testdrive helps engineers in selecting the best semiconductor platforms for next-generation development", said David Spragg, vice president, engineering and marketing for Arrow Technology Solutions. "
Among the semiconductor vendors with tools available for evaluation through this offer are Analog Devices, Atmel, Cree, Fairchoild Semiconductor, International Rectifier, NXP Semiconductors, National Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Toshiba.
Hi Alistair,
Thanks for the update on Farnell's activities,
Posted by: mick | October 22, 2009 at 09:18 PM
Hi Mick, hope things are going well!
This is a nice move from Arrow. We have a similar initiative at Farnell. Initially we ran RoadTest in the Tech First Journal, but it proved so successful with manufacturers and customers we had to move it to our element14 site. It can be found here http://www.element-14.com/community/groups/roadtest
Posted by: Alistair Winning | October 16, 2009 at 10:26 AM