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Quick Start Program
Accelerate time to market for your embedded Linux Design through the "Arabella Linux Quick Start Program"
Arabella Software helps you immediately focus on your unique value-add by delivering Arabella Linux running on your proprietary hardware. We are the only commercial Linux distribution provider to deliver customized ports and support them as part of the standard support agreement.
One of the major bottlenecks for an embedded software based design is the initial development of the Board Support Package (BSP) for a custom designed hardware platform. This is especially true with Embedded Linux designs based on complex System-On-A-Chip (SoC) processors such as the PowerQUICC family of Processors from Freescale Semiconductor. This phase of a software development project requires an intimate knowledge of the processor functionality and its optimal configuration for a particular platform, memory controllers and other low-level device drivers as well as Linux-related issues such as boot and start-up procedures, selecting appropriate file system formats and much more. BSP development time is often underestimated and if not done correctly, can impede progress in the application development phase.
Arabella Software now offers its customers the option of having Arabella Linux delivered running on their proprietary hardware so that they can immediately start working on their application development without having to worry about BSP development. Arabella’s Professional Services Group has many man years of experience in preparing Linux BSPs for custom hardware as well as working with complex SoC Processors. Whether a project is either a new design or a migration of an existing project to Linux, Arabella’s Quick Start Program is designed to allow you to start your own application development in quicker time and in much better shape.
What's Inluded:
Initial review of schematics - Arabella has saved customers multiple man weeks and significant rework costs by identifying hw/sw design issues before the board was manufactured.
Choosing and configuring functionality - Arabella helps you adapt generic functionality for your specific needs. We help you choose the proper Linux package and configure it for your specific requirements. If special functionality unique to your application is required, Arabella can develop and integrate it as an extension to the base Quick Start Program.
Porting - Porting to custom hardware is NOT just configuration. Source code changes are required as well. Bring-up debugging is difficult unless you have done it many times before. Arabella has many years of experience in porting Linux to new hardware platforms which can save you many man weeks..
Real system verification - Many problems in deployment are specific to an actual board. By testing the full configuration on your hardware, Arabella fixes many issues before you have to face them.
Support - Unlike with an off-the-shelf commercial Linux distribution, the Quick Start program allows Arabella to support Linux configured to meet your requirements on your hardware. You will get specific, rather than generic, answers to your question for 12 months.
The Quick Start process starts with a no obligation in-depth technical dicussion about your specific requirements and how Arabella can provide you with a full and optimized solution. You can then judge for yourself the value that Arabella can provide. Why not call us today?
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