EA Solutions provides solutions for intelligent devices with a specialization in bridging open source solutions with proprietary software. They provide a complete product and services offering for today's intelligent connected devices.

Founded by long time embedded Linux veterans, the company provides solutions and professional services to customers in industries such as semiconductor, telecommunications, networking, wireless, computer products, transportation, medical, and consumer electronics.

Their consultants are highly experienced hardware and software engineers with many years of product development across a wide range of open source, Linux, and proprietary technologies. The Embedded Alley consulting services assist customers through all phases of the product life cycle.

Embedded Alley has designed a Platform Optimized Linux Solution (POLS) specifically designed to showcase the differentiating hardware features of Tensilica’s products.

The POLS consists of a customized embedded Linux development and runtime environment that can help Tensilica’s customers accelerate their product development with software already tuned for Tensilica’s cores. Included in the standard distribution of the POLS product from EA Solutions are a variety of open-source middleware and applications ready to run on Tensilica processors. Tensilica hardware platforms have been added to the EA Solutions automated test lab for regular regression testing, ensuring that as the open-source Linux kernel evolves, it stays compatible with the Tensilica architecture. EA Solutions will also conduct maintenance of the Xtensa-architecture optimized components, kernel and tools in the community source trees.