The company today announced an innovative Silicon Vendor Partner Program (SVPP) for the industry that provides Embedded Alley's silicon partners the necessary competitive edge to capture Linux design wins. Program members receive a Platform Optimized Linux Solution specifically designed to showcase the differentiating hardware features of their product.

The Platform Optimized Linux Solution consists of an embedded Linux development and runtime environment customized for the silicon vendor hardware and requirements. The Solution may be freely distributed to the silicon vendor customers, enabling them to accelerate their product development with software already tuned and configured for the specific platform. The SVPP also provides a customer portal, hardware platform(s) added to the EA automated test lab for regular regression testing, maintenance of the vendor optimized components, kernel, and tools in the community source trees, and twice per year updates of the Platform Optimized Linux Solution.

"The response to our SVPP from partners has been tremendous," said Pete Popov, President and Chief Executive Officer of EA Solutions, Inc. "EA is really the first commercial company to develop a Linux strategy for silicon vendors that is of significant value to them."

"Our SVPP places us in direct contact with the silicon providers, allowing us to couple the latest tecnology with the latest open source software," adds Dan Malek, Chief Technology Officer for EA Solutions, Inc. "In many cases, we are also involved in the new silicon design process, providing a systems engineering service to optimize the whole of the silicon and software," noted Matt Porter, Vice President of Engineering.

"When we started working on the program, we first asked ourselves what will it take for our partners to secure Linux based designs in a very competitive market space," said Matthew Locke, Vice President of Business Development. "The result is a partner program that will change the industry landscape as our partners start announcing their major design wins."

Founded in 2004, EA Solutions has grown to include development centers around the world, providing various embedded technology development solutions for consumer, wireless, medical, transportation and communication devices. From its headquarters in San Jose, California, the privately held company serves clients ranging from start ups to Fortune 500 companies.