Industry Trends

Industry Trends

• Industry Trends

• Overview of Windows Embedded CE

• Key Benefits of Windows Embedded CE 6.0

• New enabled scenarios

• Examples

• Developer Tools

• Platform Builder for CE 6.0

• CE 6.0 Operating System

• Implementation of CE 6.0

• Roadmap

• Summary

Devices

• Devices

• Devices continue to be more connected (At home, work, and in the field)

• OEMs need to incorporate larger number of more complex applications into the embedded device

• Deployed Devices need to grow in functionality; applications from a variety of sources can create a richer end-user experience

• Devices need to work “Better together” with other devices and technologies

• Developers

• Device life cycles are shrinking in the consumer space

• Developers are getting asked to do more in less amount of time

• Device differentiation continues to shift towards the application

• Investments in hardware and software platforms need to be able to be used in multiple products.

32-bit, real-time, multitasking OS

• 32-bit, real-time, multitasking OS

• Highly componentized

• Delivered as a granular set of components
• Use Platform Builder tools to configure image

• Scalable

• Footprint scales with functionality selected

• Wide variety of CPU support

• Runs on x86, ARM, XScale, MIPS and SH4

• Supported

• 10 year support policy from Microsoft

Tools

• Tools

• Integrated into Visual Studio 2005
• Updated catalog functionality over previous versions
• Better visibility to developer-selected components and system-selected dependencies
• ARM Device emulator integrated into Platform Builder
• New ARM debugger transports supported
• Faster: DMA KITL for device emulator.
• Better: Does not have to emulate Ethernet or serial.
• Postmortem debugging
• The debugger can open .kdump files and view them in Platform Builder
• You now have better visibility of what happened during your device crash.
• New USB download transfer
• Runtime image viewer
• Static analysis tool for nk.bin files

• Editors

• Intellisence: Code Faster with Auto complete for functions & variable names.
• Syntax highlighting
• Graphical Reg File editor
• Provides an easier way to edit Reg files over previous versions
• Improved Catalog editor
• Create and edit catalog files easily

Compilers

• Compilers

• Visual Studio 2005 Compilers (v8)
• Improved conformance
• Improved code generation
• Supports safe SEH for security compliance
• Allows pluggable C Run-Time support
• Pluggable Floating Point support
• PREfast support for ARM, MIPS, x86 and SH

• Reference

• Documentation integrated with Visual Studio 2005
• Helps to speed access to reference information

32K processes & 2GB VM per process

• 32K processes & 2GB VM per process
• Devices can provide a rich user experience
• Devices can run a wide variety of more complex applications
• Enhanced Flexibility with kernel mode and user mode
• Key, low level OS components, such as GWES, File System manager & device driver manager are now in kernel space for improved performance.
• Developers can put the driver in Kernel space or User space depending on their design goals
• Support for ARM v6 CPUs
• Support for common ARM Core in addition to MIPS, SH & x86
• Hard real time capabilities maintained

Microsoft ported all the key components from the previous versions of CE

• Microsoft ported all the key components from the previous versions of CE

• Customers can easily port projects to this new version

• Commonly asked characteristics for this release

• Enhanced wireless networking support
• Helps to connect better with new protocols
• Performance and size
• Real time, Small footprint OS

Next-generation file system

• Next-generation file system

• Compatible with desktop to enable new scenarios
• Supports files/disks larger than 4GB

• Cache manager

• Improved performance when accessing files

• Data encryption

• Encrypt files that are on removable media

• UDFS v2.5 with read support

• Ability to read DVD data

Porting applications

• Porting applications

• Native
• Well-behaved applications (Win32-compatible) work with little to no changes
• Re-use your existing investments
• “App compat” tool helps assess issues
• Apps using CE 5.0-specific tricks may be problematic
• Managed
• .NET CF 2.0 included
• .NET applications will be easily ported

BSPs

• BSPs

• Quickly port your BSP
• Feedback from early adopters is very promising
• Key BSPs were included in the Beta
• Developers have actually started porting even before the final version was out
• More BSPs being released later
• Microsoft working actively with Silicon Vendors and 3rd parties, check the BSP website for updates
• Beta presented at MEDC
• Training of developers took place many months before the final version was out, ecosystem ready at launch

• Device Drivers

• User Mode and Kernel mode Driver Model
• Minimal effort to port existing drivers
• DMA Abstraction Layer
• Helps to Improve driver performance
• USB OTG “On The Go”
• Your device can be a USB host or USB device
• USB Function Composite client
• Allows the USB Device to perform multiple functions simultaneously
• USB Function Alternate Interfaces support
• When the device is about to start transferring data, the host side client driver can change the interface to allocate higher bandwidth
• USB Function Printer Client Driver
• This lets your CE Embedded device be a printer

For more information Visit the CE website www.microsoft.com/windowsce

• For more information Visit the CE website www.microsoft.com/windowsce

• Windows Embedded at MSDN

• http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/

• Windows Embedded Partner Site

• http://www.mswep.com

• Get the Windows Embedded Introductory Kit

• http://www.windowsembeddedkit.com

• Newsgroups

• microsoft.public.windowsce.embedded
• microsoft.public.windowsce.platbuilder