FAQ Category: Platform Questions

SiliconExpert maintains up-to-date data on over 1 billion components, including: cross references, lifecycle, parametric, obsolescence forecasts, regulation compliance and inventory data. We centralize and normalize that data to ensure on-time, accurate information that allows you save time, mitigate risk and more importantly be more strategic in your business planning. SiliconExpert’s P5 platform is a data intelligence tool meant to drive collaboration, efficiency and profitability across all functional business units, from design to sustainment.

Absolutely! This is the best way to assess our solution and determine how it could benefit your specific business. With a demo, we can customize the data analysis to your specific industry and highlight the parts, features and functions most relevant to your business.

BOM Manager gives you the ability to scrub and manage BOMs from a centralized location and proactively monitor the risk factors that affect your business. It also gives you the option to be proactively notified when PCNs, datasheets, lifecycle and other updates occur.

SiliconExpert offers a wide array of embedded integrations with today’s leading EDA, PLM and RFQ platform providers. SiliconExpert partners are revolutionizing best practices for product and supply chain management. Data integration with SiliconExpert takes these EDA, PLM, RFQ and Compliance tools to the next level by allowing customers to access cross-references, component obsolescence management, REACH, and RoHS compliance, and product datasheets.

With over 500 data engineers, SiliconExpert combs through numerous verified supplier sources to provide the most accurate data available. Supporting source documentation is always provided.

We want to give you the opportunity to see the SiliconExpert Part Search solution in action, so we recommend signing up for a free trial to see what is available for the part number you are interested in. You can sign up for the trial here: https://www.siliconexpert.com/free-trial

We have several solutions available to help meet your needs, let’s schedule a meeting to discuss the options that work best for you. This will also allow us to create a quote that fits your needs. Contact us at for a customized quote.

Our solutions use floating licenses, which allows you give access to anyone who will benefit from the SiliconExpert solutions. A floating license can be a shared among users but only allows for one user to be logged in at a time. If you have 5 floating licenses, 5 users could be logged in to SiliconExpert at one time.

No. SiliconExpert’s P5 Platform has such a wide range of features, functionality and services beyond just the platform – it would be impossible to include in a single free trial. Schedule a demo with our dedicated experts who can evaluate your business and put together the complete experience to serve your business. Features not available include: geo risk analysis, supply chain impact reports, business intelligence solutions, compliance roll up reporting, Alert Manager…to name just a few.

We track a number of compliance regulations including their corresponding documentation, including but not limited to: SCIP, REACH SVHCs, EU RoHS, Conflict Minerals & RMI Templates, China RoHS, Certificates of Compliance, Material Declarations, Lead Free Status, ELV, WEEE, GADSL, ODCo.