Although a Compact 2013 OS design involve many components, with help from the Visual Studio 2012 IDE, Platform Builder, OS design project wizard and a quality board support package for the target device, developing an OS design is a straight forward process.

Whether you are developing a custom OS runtime image, application, software library or device driver for a Compact 2013 device, OS design is an essential part of the development.

While you may not need an OS design to develop application under certain condition, a properly configured OS runtime image on a target device is needed to test and debug the application.  To generate the OS runtime image, you need an OS design.