embedded Spark 2010 Challenge: End of Round 2

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 7:00 AM - anonymous - Uncategorized - No Comments »

I got my entry in with about 24 hours to spare: http://www.embeddedspark.com/submissions/Detail.aspx?eid=285 Twenty two entries were posted by the cut-off out of 75 in round 2. Three now get chosen to present at ESC in Silicon Valley later this month. Being the Easter break (we have a 4 day weekend break over Easter: Friday to Monday) we were due to take a short vacation in the country but had to that delay that so that I could submit before leaving. I had to quickly learn how to post a video on Youtube. I used my phone to record some material, then edited it with Moviemaker. I had to subscribe to a video converter because the phone’3G video format needed changing. My main implementation issue was that I only got the LVDS LCD panel at the last moment and discovered that I hadn’t ordered the touch screen version; and it required 12V that wasn’t available in the kit. I wrote about these in the report and will blog all of this. I got the touch panel tod ...

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Building an Image

Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:00 AM - anonymous - Windows Embedded Compact - No Comments »

There are plenty of example sand how-to’s on how to build a Windows CE image, download and debug it on a target: Sam’s Jumpstart Kit: <CD>/Vortex86DX_SPARK_WINCE600_JumpStart_Rev2.5.pdf <CD>/SampleCodes/OSDesign/MyWinCE_OSDesign_Project_VDX6326.zip Where the CD is the “Solution of Fault Tolerance x86 System-on-chip” as supplied with the kit MSDN Virtual Lab: Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Platform Builder Tools Windows CE 6 Help (Local or at MSDN) Topics: For a CEPC .. A PC as a CE device, but applies to the Spark Kit: How to Set Up a CEPC The major hardware issue is the network card. It doesn’t need a hard drive You need a boot floppy, or create a USB boot floppy(Search for HP disk key) Or you can set up a bootable hard drive formatte ...

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