Mouser Electronics and Synaptics Announce Global Distribution Agreement to Enable Multimodal Solutions

January 23, 2025 – Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest electronic components and industrial automation products, today announces a new global distribution agreement with Synaptics, a San Jose, California-based company that develops neural network technologies and human-machine interface (HMI) devices. Synaptics’ portfolio includes low-power edge compute and AI solutions, application-specific system-on-chip (SoC) technology, embedded solutions for IoT and more.

“We are very excited to have the opportunity to offer Synaptics’ world-class solutions to our customers,” said Kristin Schuetter, Mouser Senior Vice President of Products. “Our partnership with Synaptics will benefit design engineering customers who require access to the newest edge and AI products.”

“Mouser’s decades of experience as a trusted, authorized distributor of cutting-edge components for design engineers makes them an ideal partner for Synaptics,” said John Weil, Vice President of IoT and Edge AI Processor Business at Synaptics. “At a time of rapid change and fragmentation, this agreement brings our AI-Native Edge IoT platform to a broad base of customers so they can easily add AI features to their designs while meeting tight power, performance, cost, and space constraints. With its best-in-class service and streamlined global logistics, we’re confident Mouser will provide early access and world-class support for our industry-leading product portfolio.”

The Synaptics SL1680 evaluation kit is part of the Astra Machina Foundation Series of evaluation-ready kits that enable easy and rapid prototyping for the Synaptics SL-Series of multimodal embedded processors. The kit is based on the SL1680 embedded IoT processor, which incorporates high-performance compute engines, including a quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A73 64-bit CPU subsystem, a multi-TOPS NPU, and a high-efficiency, feature-rich GPU. The SL1680 evaluation kit brings a combination of performance and feature integration optimized for multimodal consumer, enterprise, and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) workloads with hardware accelerators for edge inferencing, security, graphics, vision, and audio.

The Synaptics SL1640 evaluation kit is based on the SL1640 SoC, a cost and power-optimized secure embedded IoT processor featuring a quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 CPU, 1.6+ TOPS NPU, and an Imagination GE9920 GPU with 90 GFLOPS 16-bit operations. The device also includes Ultra HD video encode and decode pipelines, as well as audio DSP. The SL1540 kit enables applications such as enterprise conferencing, AI audio, display and signage, and consumer and industrial control panels.

The Synaptics SL1620 evaluation kit enables easy development based on the SL1620 SoC, which is designed and optimized for embedded applications that require powerful processing, advanced AI capability, and 3D graphics. This chip comes with Linux® OS, superior audio algorithms, a variety of peripherals, dual displays, and companion Synaptics SoC for connectivity and audio front end.

All three of the Astra Machina Foundation Series of evaluation kits incorporate swappable core compute modules, a common I/O board, flexible I/O options and daughter cards for connectivity and debugging. The kits also integrate the Synaptics Veros™ wireless solution for Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity.

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