According to element14, this announcement follows a number of customer requests to create customized versions of the Raspberry Pi boards. It also represents the next phase in the element14 and Raspberry Pi Trading global partnership. Utilizing the in-house design knowledge available through its Embest and AVID technology businesses ─ together with the comprehensive training provided by Broadcom and Raspberry Pi Trading ─ element14 has access to more than 200 design engineers to evaluate customers’ needs and provide bespoke Raspberry Pi-based customization designs to meet their requirements.
The agreement opens up the potential for the Raspberry Pi technology platform to be customized to suit specific customer applications across a wide range of industries and sectors from Internet of Things (IoT) technology to energy management, industrial and end consumer devices. Customizations may include reconfiguring the board layout, incorporating additional functionality, redesigning the interfaces and changing the board and memory configuration.
“This exclusive partnership extends element14’s world class end-to-end design to manufacturing services to OEM customers, giving them the flexibility to customize any Raspberry Pi board in order to optimize it for a particular design," said Claire Doyle, global head of Raspberry Pi at element14.“This is an incredibly exciting development for Raspberry Pi Trading, Broadcom and the industry as a whole, which will see boards featuring the Broadcom application processors being designed into end user applications and markets in significant volume.”
For more information or to find out how to customize the Raspberry Pi, visit www.element14.com/custompi.
