Windows embedded

Special Computing's videos highlight full featured Windows CE 6.0 BSP
Special Computing has released a series of videos showing some of the advanced features of their Windows CE 6.0 BSP. The BSP supports all Overo COM modules and carrier boards.

Windows CE 6.0.

LCD.

Advanced features including Bluetooth and WiFi.

TI Pico Projector.

Wireless Network Projector.

Windows CE 6.0 Network Projector running on Gumstix Overo from Adeneo Embedded
Adeneo Embedded, editor of the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 BSP for Gumstix Overo, presents in this video a Network projector demo running on Gumstix OMAP3530 based module. Joe Broxson, Senior Windows Embedded Consultant at Adeneo Embedded shows in details how Windows CE 6.0 combined with the Gumstix Overo platform can be used to implement very easily a network projector solution. This video also highlights performance of Gumstix Overo board along with Adeneo Embedded Windows CE BSP to have smooth video rendering over the network.

Speaker: 	Joe Broxson, Senior Windows Embedded Consultant, Adeneo Embedded

Adeneo Embedded's WIN CE 6.0 Network projector video can be accessed here.

Gumstix presentation at Microsoft Headquarters
Gumstix EVP of Marketing presented the Gumstix story in September, 2007. The video was recorded and posted on the University of Washington site here.

For customers using MAC computers, use this link

mms://media-wm.cac.washington.edu/msr/14736/asf/14736.asf

for the video stream.

Win CE 6.0 Technical Overview - video playback
In this video streaming of the live session, Mike Hall, a Senior Technical Product Manager at Microsoft and a member of the Drumstix project, gives the CE 6.0 Technical Overview.

The Win CE 6.0 release is packed with changes and updates to kernel and memory model, operating system and application development tools and supported operating system features - watch this session to get a fast-track update on why you should be developing your next embedded device on CE 6.0.

Speaker: 	Mike Hall, Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft

Mike's WIN CE 6.0 Overview can be accessed here.

Note: When Mike talks in this presentation about Board Support Packages (BSPs) for Win CE 6.0, he mentions the gumstix BSP first. This occurs at about the 40 minute mark of this "CE 6.0 Overview" presentation. Login and hear more from Mike Hall at Microsoft about the gumstix BSP for Win CE 6.0 here.

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Gaining Microsoft certification
Click here to gain further information about Microsoft's approval process.

Microsoft partners interested in porting windows embedded to the Gumstix platform to create a Microsoft-approved BSP should contact Scott Davis at Microsoft (Redmond):

Davis.Scott@microsoft.com

Adeneo Embedded Gumstix Overo BSP for Windows Embedded CE 6.0
Adeneo Embedded provides a reference Windows Embedded CE Board Support Package for Gumstix Overo.

More information on this BSP can be found on Adeneo Embedded Website.

A preliminary evaluation version of this BSP is now available for free download. This evaluation version includes a binary Windows Embedded CE demo image that allows doing basic evaluation and testing of WinCE on Gumstix Overo and a Binary Windows Embedded CE BSP to be used with Microsoft Platform Builder to generate custom Windows Embedded CE image for further evaluation and testing, including building custom OS image for specific testing. Check Gumstix Overo page on Adeneo Embedded website for detailed information on how to access to this evaluation version, and get more details on development roadmap of this BSP. You can also Contact Adeneo Embedded sales team for further information.

See also the Press Release announcing this BSP.

Community Project
As of January, 2008:

Board Support Package (BSP) for the Gumstix Verdex platform.

This project provides a community version of a Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Board Support Package (BSP) targeted to the Gumstix Verdex platform.

Note that Gumstix, Inc. does not provide technical support of this Windows software.

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Other Companies
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Gumstix BSP for Windows Embedded CE 5.0 (Project Drumstix from We-Dig)
The Gumstix BSP for Windows Embedded CE 5.0 is available from the Drumstix project by the WE-DIG group of Redmond, Washington, USA. Prebuilt images and boot loader ready for loading onto your Gumstix platform is also available. So there is no need for Platform Builder 5.0 in a non-commercial application.

The WinCE 5.0 BSP supports the following features:

Basic/Connex - 200MHz/400MHz, 4Meg/16Meg Flash

Basic MMC/netMMC

CFSTix/netCF

Persistant Registry

EtherStix/netDUO

Bluetooth BPA31307/ROK104001

LCD Display

AudioStix

WiFiSTIX

FFUART

STUART

HWUART

PWM1

Notification LED

USB

Implements a custom boot loader called we-boot

The following features of we-boot are documented:

load we-boot over u-boot

reload u-boot over we-boot

upgrade we-boot via serial, platform builder, or EShell

Flash upgrade tool via JTAG (Wiggler & Insight supported)

Image startup/download options:

Startup: Download, Flash image, MMC image, CF image

Primary Download devices: STUART, FFUART (SRecord), CF, ETH1, ETH2

Secondary Download devices: STUART, CF, ETH1, ETH2

Among others there is a project that enables Debugging via VS2005 & Platform Builder simultaneously. This frees up the USB from debugging via ActiveSync.

For further information see the file "Windows CE 5.0 BSP for the Gumstix Platform.htm" included in either "0.7 binaries" or "Gumstix 0.7 BSP for CE 5.0.msi .zip"

Gumstix BSP for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 (Project Drumstix from We-Dig)
The Gumstix BSP for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 is available from the Drumstix project by the WE-DIG group of Redmond, Washington, USA. The connex and basix platforms are supported under CE 6.0 with all the same drivers as the 5.0 with the addition of the WiFiStix and WiFiStix-CF. The Verdex platform under 6.0 is a work-in-progress with a limited number of drivers.

Technical Support from Adeneo Embedded
Adeneo Embedded provides support on Windows Embedded CE 6.0 running on Gumstix Overo architecture. Contact Adeneo Embedded Sales team for more information.

Technical Support from We-Dig
Technical support for Windows CE 5.0 and Windows Embedded CE 6.0 comes from Project Drumstix at We-Dig

Note:

- At Gumstix, we focus our resources on Linux and do not work with Windows CE.

- Windows CE 5.0 and Windows Embedded CE 6.0 are provided and supported by We-Dig.