diff --git a/c_cxx/Snpe_EP/CMakeLists.txt b/c_cxx/Snpe_EP/CMakeLists.txt
index dadf40c10..5531959de 100644
--- a/c_cxx/Snpe_EP/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/c_cxx/Snpe_EP/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,13 @@ ADD_EXECUTABLE(snpe_ep_sample  main.cpp)
 if(HAVE_TENSORRT_PROVIDER_FACTORY_H)
   target_compile_definitions(snpe_ep_sample PRIVATE -DHAVE_TENSORRT_PROVIDER_FACTORY_H)
 endif()
-target_link_libraries(snpe_ep_sample onnxruntime)
+
+set(ORT_LIBS onnxruntime)
+if(ANDROID)
+list(APPEND ORT_LIBS libc++_shared.so)
+endif()
+target_link_libraries(snpe_ep_sample ${ORT_LIBS})
+
 if(MSVC)
   target_link_directories(snpe_ep_sample PRIVATE ${ONNXRUNTIME_ROOTDIR}/build/Windows/Release/Release)
 else()
diff --git a/c_cxx/Snpe_EP/README.md b/c_cxx/Snpe_EP/README.md
index 9fa1f8797..2ec1cbbed 100644
--- a/c_cxx/Snpe_EP/README.md
+++ b/c_cxx/Snpe_EP/README.md
@@ -74,7 +74,12 @@
     chairs.raw -- from $SNPE_ROOT/models/inception_v3/data/cropped
     imagenet_slim_labels.txt -- from $SNPE_ROOT/models/inception_v3/data
 
-    Run snpe_ep_sample.exe, it will output:
+    Run
+    ```
+    snpe_ep_sample.exe --cpu chairs.raw
+    ```
+
+    it will output:
 
     ```
     832, 0.299591, studio couch
@@ -103,6 +108,7 @@
     adb push [$SNPE_ROOT]/lib/dsp/*.so /data/local/tmp/snpeexample
     adb push [$Onnxruntime_ROOT]/build/Android/Release/libonnxruntime.so /data/local/tmp/snpeexample    
     adb push [$SNPE_ROOT]/models/inception_v3/data/cropped/chairs.raw /data/local/tmp/snpeexample
+    adb push [$SNPE_ROOT]/models/inception_v3/data/imagenet_slim_labels.txt /data/local/tmp/snpeexample
     adb push [$SNPE_ROOT]/models/inception_v3/snpe_inception_v3.onnx /data/local/tmp/snpeexample
     adb push ./onnxruntime-inference-examples/c_cxx/Snpe_EP/build_android/snpe_ep_sample /data/local/tmp/snpeexample
     ```
@@ -115,7 +121,8 @@
     chmod +x *
     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/data/local/tmp/snpeexample
     export PATH=$PATH:/data/local/tmp/snpeexample
-    snpe_ep_sample
+    snpe_ep_sample --cpu chairs.raw
+    snpe_ep_sample --dsp chairs.raw
     ```
 
     it will output:
diff --git a/c_cxx/Snpe_EP/main.cpp b/c_cxx/Snpe_EP/main.cpp
index 213815869..1c5a8907b 100644
--- a/c_cxx/Snpe_EP/main.cpp
+++ b/c_cxx/Snpe_EP/main.cpp
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ bool CheckStatus(const OrtApi* g_ort, OrtStatus* status) {
     const char* msg = g_ort->GetErrorMessage(status);
     std::cerr << msg << std::endl;
     g_ort->ReleaseStatus(status);
-    throw std::exception();
+    throw Ort::Exception(msg, OrtErrorCode::ORT_EP_FAIL);
   }
   return true;
 }
 
-void run_ort_snpe_ep() {
+void run_ort_snpe_ep(std::string backend, std::string input_path) {
 #ifdef _WIN32
   const wchar_t* model_path = L"snpe_inception_v3.onnx";
 #else
@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@ void run_ort_snpe_ep() {
   CheckStatus(g_ort, g_ort->SetSessionGraphOptimizationLevel(session_options, ORT_ENABLE_BASIC));
 
   std::vector<const char*> options_keys = {"runtime", "buffer_type"};
-  std::vector<const char*> options_values = {"CPU", "FLOAT"}; // set to TF8 if use quantized data
+  std::vector<const char*> options_values = {backend.c_str(), "FLOAT"};  // set to TF8 if use quantized data
 
-  CheckStatus(g_ort, g_ort->SessionOptionsAppendExecutionProvider_SNPE(session_options, options_keys.data(),
-                                                                       options_values.data(), options_keys.size()));
+  CheckStatus(g_ort, g_ort->SessionOptionsAppendExecutionProvider(session_options, "SNPE", options_keys.data(),
+                                                                  options_values.data(), options_keys.size()));
   OrtSession* session;
   CheckStatus(g_ort, g_ort->CreateSession(env, model_path, session_options, &session));
 
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ void run_ort_snpe_ep() {
   size_t input_data_length = input_data_size * sizeof(float);
   std::vector<float> input_data(input_data_size, 1.0);
 
-  std::ifstream input_raw_file("chairs.raw", std::ios::binary);
+  std::ifstream input_raw_file(input_path, std::ios::binary);
   input_raw_file.seekg(0, std::ios::end);
   const size_t num_elements = input_raw_file.tellg() / sizeof(float);
   input_raw_file.seekg(0, std::ios::beg);
@@ -162,7 +162,35 @@ void run_ort_snpe_ep() {
   printf("%d, %f, %s \n", max_index, *max, label_table[max_index].c_str());
 }
 
+void PrintHelp() {
+  std::cout << "To run the sample, use the following command:" << std::endl;
+  std::cout << "Example: ./snpe_ep_sample --cpu <path_to_raw_input>" << std::endl;
+  std::cout << "To Run with SNPE CPU backend. Example: ./snpe_ep_sample --cpu chairs.raw" << std::endl;
+  std::cout << "To Run with SNPE DSP backend. Example: ./snpe_ep_sample --dsp chairs.raw" << std::endl;
+}
+
+constexpr const char* CPUBACKEDN = "--cpu";
+constexpr const char* DSPBACKEDN = "--dsp";
+
 int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
-  run_ort_snpe_ep(); 
+  std::string backend = "CPU";
+
+  if (argc != 3) {
+    PrintHelp();
+    return 1;
+  }
+
+  if (strcmp(argv[1], CPUBACKEDN) == 0) {
+    backend = "CPU";
+  } else if (strcmp(argv[1], DSPBACKEDN) == 0) {
+    backend = "DSP";
+  } else {
+    std::cout << "This sample only support CPU, DSP." << std::endl;
+    PrintHelp();
+    return 1;
+  }
+  std::string input_path(argv[2]);
+
+  run_ort_snpe_ep(backend, input_path);
   return 0;
 }