Digi-Key and Future Designs announced the signing of a global distribution agreement. Digi-Key will add FDI to the line card. 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.