The enhanced toolset allows engineers to confidently design, simulate, refine, and validate their projects using ST components and purchase their entire bill of materials (BOM) directly from DigiKey in just a few simple steps. ST's eDesignSuite is a free, publicly accessible, and license-free online design platform that provides a unified workflow for power management, signal conditioning, NFC/RFID applications, and other design domains.
The collaboration with DigiKey and Ultra Librarian expands the platform's capabilities by tightly integrating component models, simulation workflows, bill of materials management, and multi-CAD exports. "DigiKey is excited to collaborate with ST and Ultra Librarian to offer engineers a unified online tool that accelerates their design process," said Nick D. Olson, Head of Supplier Business Development at DigiKey. "The deep integration within the eDesignSuite environment provides users with advanced bill of materials verification, enhanced simulation visibility, and a direct path from design to purchase—all of which help bring new products to market faster."
The enhanced eDesignSuite experience offers several new and expanded capabilities, including:
• Integrated support for thermal and electrical simulations via SIMPLIS/SIMetrix, enabling deeper performance verification and design confidence
• Real-time refinement of bills of materials with on-the-spot impact analysis, allowing engineers to immediately see how parameter changes affect design choices and performance. • Seamless export of schematics and bills of materials to multiple CAD environments, including OrCAD, Altium, and Eagle
• Application-specific design support, including power management design, thermoelectric simulation, signal conditioning, and NFC/RFID calculators. These capabilities make ST the first integrated circuit vendor to offer this level of design tool connectivity with DigiKey purchasing systems. The enhanced eDesignSuite provides a comprehensive workflow that helps engineers: • Efficiently evaluate operating conditions, waveforms, and design alternatives
• Validate the impact of component selections
• Generate finalized schematics and bill of materials files
• Export to preferred CAD environments
• Purchase the entire DigiKey bill of materials in a few simplified steps
“This valuable collaboration with DigiKey and Ultra Librarian expands eDesignSuite from a powerful design tool to a unified design-to-procurement environment,” said Patrizia Bellitto, SW System Tools and Applications Manager at STMicroelectronics. “By connecting simulation, component selection, export, and CAD procurement in a single browser-based environment, we streamline the engineer’s journey and make it easier for them to design with ST technologies.” “Ultra Librarian is focused on simplifying the path from design to procurement,” said Gopu Achath, Vice President of Technology at Ultra Librarian. “Thanks to our integration with STMicroelectronics eDesignSuite, engineers can now seamlessly access component data and upload bills of materials to DigiKey, creating a faster, more connected design environment.”.
