30+ YEARS EXPERIENCE Front-End Electronics Design-In & Technical Advisory

Advise. Design.
Educate. Inform.
Your Design, Your Way.

Looking for support with your electronics design? Searching For Silicon brings over three decades of hands-on semiconductor and electronics industry expertise to help engineering and sourcing teams get to market faster, more competitively, and with guaranteed person-to-person operating integrity.

SUBSYSTEM EXPLORER CLICK BLOCK TO INSPECT
PARTNER SOLUTION // ADVANCED THERMAL SOLUTIONS (ATS) Boston, USA

Solving High-Density Heat Dissipation

Thousands of standard and custom thermal management products: maxiFLOW™ heat sinks, liquid cooling cold plates, chillers, wind tunnels, and full thermal simulation services.

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WHY CHOOSE US

More Than Component Representation. We Are Your Front-End Design Partner.

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ADVISE & INFORM

Accelerating Time-to-Market

Expert advisory on component architecture, thermal profiles, Edge AI co-processing, HMI integration, and BOM resilience.

Concept → Prototype → Series
02
DESIGN EXCELLENCE

Direct Factory Engineering

Direct links to ATS, Amulet, MNR, Wizerr, and BrainChip application engineers without distributor barriers.

Direct Engineering Access
03
OPERATING INTEGRITY

Person-to-Person Guarantee

No bot queues. Direct conversations, prompt responses to every enquiry, and accountable engineering relationships.

✓ Direct Human Support
04
EDUCATE & EMPOWER

30+ Years Insight

Led by Nigel Watts, we share three decades of component and distribution know-how to protect your supply chain.

Independent & Solution-Driven
DESIGN-IN PORTFOLIO

Five Specialist Technology Partners. One Engineering Desk.

01 // THERMAL MANAGEMENT BOSTON, USA
ATS

Based in Boston, USA, ATS is a pioneer and world leader in thermal management solutions with thousands of products designed to offer comprehensive cooling from laboratory analysis to mass production.

www.qats.com ↗ Niche to Volume

High-Performance Heat Sinks, Liquid Cooling & Thermal Simulation

Modern processors, FPGAs, and power electronics generate unprecedented heat densities. ATS provides complete thermal engineering capabilities — helping you model airflow, select standard or custom heat sinks, implement liquid cold plates, and validate thermal performance in wind tunnels before committing to tooling.

COOLING HARDWARE

maxiFLOW™ & superGRIP™ heat sinks, heat pipes, vapor chambers & liquid cold plates.

TEST INSTRUMENTS

Research-grade thermal wind tunnels, anemometers, and temperature/velocity sensors.

DESIGN ADVISORY

CFD thermal simulation, custom mechanical extrusion, and rapid prototyping.

Support: Concept → Volume Production
02 // EMBEDDED GUI DISPLAYS CALIFORNIA, USA
Amulet

Based in California, USA, Amulet Technologies has been a world leader in programmable graphical display solutions for over 30 years.

amulettechnologies.com ↗ 30+ Yrs Pioneer

Programmable Graphical Display Modules & On-The-Fly UI Control

Amulet Technologies enables engineers to build rich, intuitive Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) that allow appearance and functionality to be controlled and updated “on the fly”. By offloading graphics processing to Amulet's dedicated Graphical OS hardware, even compact 8-bit or 32-bit host microcontrollers can drive vivid touchscreens effortlessly.

GEMSTUDIO™ PRO

Rapid visual GUI authoring software for designing and simulating embedded interfaces in days, not months.

GRAPHICAL OS CHIP

Dedicated silicon that handles all rendering, touch logic, and memory management independently.

CUSTOM DISPLAYS

Standard starter kits, open-frame capacitive/resistive TFT modules, and bespoke OEM display assemblies.

Medical • Industrial • Appliances
03 // COMPLETE HMI SOLUTIONS 30+ YRS HERITAGE
MNR

With over 30 years of experience, MNR Technology is a vertically integrated leader in complete, custom-engineered Human-Machine Interface (HMI) assemblies.

mnrtechnology.com ↗ Vertically Integrated

“Concept to Completion” Enclosures, Keypads, PCB & Firmware

Designing a reliable operator interface requires mechanical, tactile, optical, and electronic harmony. MNR Technology provides a seamless single-source path from initial industrial design and 3D mechanical modelling through to enclosures, keypads, printed circuit boards, and embedded firmware.

TACTILE & HOUSINGS

Silicone rubber keypads, membrane switches, touch panels, plastic injection & rugged metal enclosures.

3D & MECHATRONICS

Complete 3D CAD modelling, environmental sealing (IP-rated), backlighting & optical bonding.

PCB & FIRMWARE

In-house schematic capture, PCB layout, PCBA manufacturing, and firmware integration for plug-and-play HMIs.

Concept → Tooling → Turnkey Build
04 // COMPONENT AI LAYER BOM INTELLIGENCE
Wizerr AI

Wizerr.ai builds AI team-mates for Engineering, Sourcing, and Supply Chain teams — powering the intelligence layer for electronic components.

www.wizerr.ai ↗ Component AI

AI-Powered Component Discovery, Cross-Referencing & BOM Resilience

Selecting the right components early in the design phase prevents costly redesigns later. Wizerr.ai reads and compares thousands of complex semiconductor datasheets at the parameter level — helping engineers and buyers find drop-in alternatives, eliminate single-source bottlenecks, and optimize BOM costs in minutes.

PIN-TO-PIN ALTERNATIVES

Instant parametric cross-referencing across millions of active and passive electronic components.

DESIGN AGAINST EOL

Identify lifecycle and allocation risks during schematic capture before your PCB layout is locked.

BOM COST REDUCTION

Empower sourcing and component engineering teams with verified multi-vendor negotiation leverage.

Engineering • Sourcing • EMS
05 // NEUROMORPHIC EDGE AI CALIFORNIA, USA
BrainChip

BrainChip is the global pioneer in ultra-low-power, event-based neuromorphic AI solutions from silicon to software — delivering real-time on-device intelligence where no data leaves the sensor edge.

www.brainchip.com ↗ Silicon & IP Cores

Akida™ Neuromorphic Co-Processors, Edge AI Hardware & Licensable IP

BrainChip enables always-on, ultra-low-power Physical AI directly at the sensor edge. Powered by its digital event-based Akida™ architecture and Temporal Event-Based Neural Networks (TENNs), engineers can add sub-watt on-chip learning and real-time inference for vision, audio, vital signs, and vibration/sensor modalities to any microcontroller or host processor — with zero cloud dependency.

AKD1500™ CO-PROCESSORS

22nm FD-SOI Edge AI chips (up to 800 effective GOPS at milliwatt power) with SPI for MCUs or PCIe Gen2 / M.2 cards for host CPUs.

AKIDA™ IP & TENNs

Scalable, licensable NPU IP cores (Akida Gen 2, Pico & Sequora) for custom SoCs, supporting ultra-compact Spatial-Temporal models.

METATF™ DEV SUITE

Seamless model quantization, CNN-to-SNN conversion, and deployment via standard TensorFlow/Keras, PyTorch & Edge Impulse workflows.

Audio • Vision • Sensor Fusion
COMPLEMENTARY SERVICE FOR MANUFACTURERS & PARTNERS

Introducing identifAI — AI-Led Opportunity Discovery Meets Peer-to-Peer Engagement.

Post-Covid hybrid working, dispersed engineering teams, and limited distributor bandwidth have made discovering new design opportunities harder than ever. identifAI is our proprietary “AND” solution — adding targeted firepower to your existing channels.

30–40%
Avg. Positive Response
250–750+
Qualified Contacts / Mo
100%
Personal Rep Follow-Up
“AND”
Complements Channels

Are you a component manufacturer looking to uncover new design opportunities in the UK & Europe?

TECHNICAL OVERVIEWS

Partner Engineering Documentation

Direct technical PDFs from our core partner lines
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ATS Product Portfolio

Heat sinks, liquid cooling, and thermal instruments.

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Amulet Introduction

Programmable GUI modules and Graphical OS chip.

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MNR At A Glance

Turnkey HMI enclosures, keypads, PCB & firmware.

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BrainChip AKD1500 Brief

Akida™ neuromorphic Edge AI co-processors & IP cores.

PERSON-TO-PERSON GUARANTEE

From Concept to Production — Your Design, Your Way.

We believe in direct human interaction. Whether you need technical guidance on thermal management, programmable displays, custom HMIs, AI BOM optimization, neuromorphic Edge AI, or identifAI campaign support, get in touch with our team in Marlow directly.

Headquarters
Searching For Silicon Ltd
Jubilee House, Third Avenue, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, UK, SL7 1EF
Extended Availability
Monday – Sunday: 06:00 – 21:00 (UK)