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Anyone for Embedded MSDN Subscription?

By on February 22nd, 2010

There’s now an MSDN subscription for users of Windows CE and Windows Embedded Standard. It’s officially called “Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition with MSDN Embedded Subscription”.

It’s an alternative way to acquire the required development tools (Platform Builder, Target Designer, etc), and a good deal for many users because you get absolutely everything. The toolkits for both Windows CE (including Platform Builder and VS2005) as well as for XPe and Windows Embedded Standard are there. As well as all previous versions, you get all new versions for a year, so in a year where both WES and CE will change version that has to be a good deal.

Where do I buy it? From us if you like…,

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Windows Embedded Standard 7

By on February 18th, 2010

That’s the official name for the next version of Windows Embedded Standard. It’s an all-new implementation of the componentized version of Windows for embedded use, which, as the name suggests, is based on Windows 7 rather than XPe as before.

That means it doesn’t necessarily replace WES 2009 in all applications, so as well as how to upgrade, users should consider carefully whether and when to do so.

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SwiftLite-OM extension board coming soon

By on February 12th, 2010

There’s a new extension board for SwiftLite-OM, shipping sometime very soon, which, as well as bringing a number of interfaces to 0.1″ headers (I2C, Camera, SPI, MMC, LCD) features two additional RS-232 ports, a USB Hub and JTAG connector.

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TRITON-TX51 i.MX51 module shipping!

By on February 9th, 2010

We’re pleased to say that TRITON-TX51 is now shipping, complete with shiny new BSPs. The initial Windows CE 6.0 BSP is pretty complete – just ask for details

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Cinnamon Bay runs Windows Embedded Standard 2011

By on February 3rd, 2010

The new version of Windows Embedded Standard, codenamed 2011, and based on Windows 7 is a considerably different kettle-of-fish from the old WES 2009. However we’re pleased to say that we’ve got it running on the ADI Cinnamon Bay Atom boards that we sell and support, including booting from CompactFlash.

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SwiftModule-OM achieves low-current suspend Windows CE

By on January 28th, 2010

Obviously if you’re making a handheld device, boot time can be an issue. With our OMAP3530 based SwiftModule-OM, we’re seeing boot times in the region of 15 – 20 seconds. There are various things that can be done to reduce this, such as reducing the image size and using BinFS.

However, for many applications, the availability of Suspend and Resume support is critical. Unfortunately this is not available as a standard feature of the TI/BSquare BSP, but I’m pleased to say it’s now up and running our platform. Obviously a system in Suspend does not have the power switched off, and there will be some current flow. We are currently seeing 5.5ma (deep sleep), but in many situations, this is a small price to pay for the 120msec for full resume!

We expect to achieve further reductions in the deep sleep current.

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Does the world need another blog?

By on January 20th, 2010

Obviously the answer is yes.

So, we’ve started a blog as a way to collect some of the technical themes than run through our day-to-day work which may be of interest to the wider world.

Like that day-to-day work, recurring themes will be Windows Embedded, low-power solutions and the like.

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