Premier Farnell is supporting ARM processor-based designs by making available a number of development tools, software and evaluation boards across Europe.
A similar offering is already available in the Americas.
The distributor's ARM chips includes Atmel, Freescale, NXP, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments.
According to David Shen, Chief Technology Officer at Premier Farnell: “This agreement extends our capability in the EMEA region as we continue to support customers earlier in the design cycle by providing not just hardware products, but also software, services and technology solutions."
“We are pleased to build on our excellent relationship with Premier Farnell to make ARM software development tools available to customers across EMEA,” said John Cornish, executive vice president & general manager, System Design Division, ARM.