This article was contributed by an embedded product development consulting firm that often works with Linux. It outlines the role that chip vendor-supplied evaluation kits play in determining time-to-evaluation and ultimately time-to-market, with a candid appraisal of the kits available from three specific chip vendors.
Our company, Synchromesh Computing, has substantial experience with SDKs and evaluation kits. We built our business, originally, on benchmarking and performance analysis, and moved into also offering software development and consulting. We have used hundreds of SDKs and reference platforms. Because of this, we have developed an understanding of what constitutes a complete and viable offering:
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