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Two of the key fundamental principles of traditional silicon electronics that enabled high volume production of complex devices are modularity and configurability. The former allows a particular set of functionality to be segmented into successively smaller blocks of functionality, thereby simplifying both the engineering tasks (design specification and product development) as well as the operational aspects (prototyping, testing, and trouble-shooting). The latter allows a single hardware design, produced and tested efficiently at high volume, to be used for a large variety of applications (some of which may individually be relatively low volume).

While most printed electronics players are still wrestling custom design of relatively simple electronic circuits, Nano ePrint is building these key principles of modularity and configurability in to its circuit architecture from the start.

This product strategy starts with discrete logic components, incrementally adding configurable interconnections to evolve through simple programmable logic devices (SPLDs), complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and ultimately microprocessors. In each case, Nano ePrint’s devices will not compete directly with latest generation silicon devices, but rather will address the lower end of the functionality spectrum, delivering an alternative that is significantly lower cost and also enables their use in a far greater range of product form factors (transparent, flexible, robust, disposable, etc).

Nano ePrint’s devices also include radio frequency (RF) functionality which can optionally be used in certain applications. For example, the circuit can be powered wirelessly via energy scavenging of RF signals (e.g. from an RFID reader, mobile phone or WiFi).