The Kit as supplied to Round 2 participants in the embedded Spark 2010 Summer Challenge: Build a media device using Windows Embedded Standard 2007
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The Advantech AIMB-212 Kit
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Glossary
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The Kit in container box
The kit opened
The kit opened.. again
The board from front
The board from left side
The board from the back
The board from above and back
The ...
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Its out of the bag..
See http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/windowsce/compact7.mspx
Windows Embedded Compact 7 is available as a trial download under the Public Community Tech Preview program (Public CTP).
Also:
http://www.embedded.com/225300051?cid=NL_embedded
Download appears to be 8 Gig.
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It requires Visual Studio 2008 SP1>
Note VS 2010 has no support for devices, except Windows Phone 7
Mustn’t have Windows CE (any version) installed.
Platfo ...
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About
I figured it was time to get some more grunt for embedded development. Last week I put together an I7 930 system.
To cut a long story short, I built a CE operating system in about 6.5 minutes!
System Specs:
Intel® Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80 GHz
That’s quad core, it hyperthreads as 8 CPUs
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=41447
6 Gig DDR 3 1333 Ram as 3 x 2 Gig
CPU has 3 Memory channels so one each
We ...
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If you have MSDN Premium (or above) or MSDN Embedded you can now download the non-trial version of WES7 from MSDN Subscriber downloads.
Unlike the trial version where the DVDs are downloaded as up to 8 part files (rar) files each, the MSDN version is the DVD ISOs.
Trial Version
Note the trial version is available from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/downloads/default.mspx.
Runtime images created by the Windows Embedded Standard 7 Evaluation will run for 30 days with ...
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Ref: http://www.embedded.com/224700936?cid=NL_embedded
It was reported a little while ago that the gulf that divides ARM and x86 is narrowing. ARM, especially if GPUs are bolted on are increasing in capability. Intel ATOMs are being scaled down in power and size. It was at the time suggested that PADs might sit in the middle and be implementable able using both. It has now been announced that Intel Atoms have been scaled down and can be used in phones.
“Intel Corp. rolled out ...
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About
Yesterday I downloaded the Windows Embedded Standard 7 from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/downloads/default.mspx
This is the final (trial) version of WES7. I created a new x86 image which worked OK.
It not available yet on MSDN Subscriber Downloads.
Download:
I had some problems with this.. I downloaded both the x86 and x64 IBWs as well as the Toolkit. This consists of 3 DVDs ( 2 x IBWs + Toolkit) but you download as parts that are about 480M each and ...
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About
I got the the WES7 box running as a Media Centre device able to show live digital TV; and record it.
Hardware
The WES7 Box with Windows Media Centre etc.
USB AV Labs AVL680HD Digital Tuner.
TV Cable and antennae
Setup & Run
I had to get the audio working on the box first. I then downloaded the driver from AV Labs and installed it. It then searched for channels when I ran Media Centre and chose Live TV. I was then able to run the box as a Digital TV ...
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Lets completely work through a Platform Invoke Example.
For simplicity I’ll use a Windows Mobile Emulator, but it would simply apply to an actual Windows Mobile Device/Windows CE device.
Context:
Visual Studio 2008 with a suitable Windows Mobile or Windows CE Emulator/SDK installed.
Using C# for the application and C++ for the native DLL.
I have also tried this on my Windows Mobile 6.53 Phone
First
Create a new C# Smart Device Project .. Ignore the .NET Ver ...
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Aka PInvoke
Native and Managed Code
Native code is code written in C++ (or assembler) and compiled to produce a binary executable or .DLL. Native code applications are CPU specific and only require the executable and any other required native .DLLs. Native code applications and .DLLs do not produce MSIL code.
Managed code applications are written in C# or VB.NET using the .NET Compact Framework (CF). Unlike desktop .NET, C++ cannot be used to code .NET CF (Smart Device) applications. CF provides a rich l ...
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