The Silicon Vendor Partner Program (SVPP) is an industry innovative program by EA Solutions that provides silicon vendors the competitive edge necessary for Linux based 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.

In addition to providing the Platform Solution, EA will submit and maintain the partners hardware platform BSP in the mainline Linux kernel.

Program members receive:

• Platform Optimized Linux Solution ("EA Linux Solution") targeted for the Partners hardware platform
• Partner preferred pricing
• Partner hardware platform(s) added into the EA Test Lab
• Partner Portal for

  joint defecting tracking

  kernel repository access

  delivery tracking and file sharing

  joint mailing list

For more information about EA Solutions' SVPP, please send an email to svpp@embeddedalley.com, or call Matthew Locke at 408-577-1884.