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22 02, 2010

Anyone for Embedded MSDN Subscription?

By |2017-05-19T13:12:01+00:00February 22nd, 2010|Uncategorized|

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 […]

18 02, 2010

Windows Embedded Standard 7

By |2010-02-18T16:11:26+00:00February 18th, 2010|Uncategorized|

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 […]

3 02, 2010

Cinnamon Bay runs Windows Embedded Standard 2011

By |2010-02-03T16:05:12+00:00February 3rd, 2010|Uncategorized|

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.

28 01, 2010

SwiftModule-OM achieves low-current suspend Windows CE

By |2017-05-19T13:12:01+00:00January 28th, 2010|Uncategorized|

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 […]

20 01, 2010

Does the world need another blog?

By |2017-05-19T13:12:01+00:00January 20th, 2010|Uncategorized|

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.

P.S. The best way to follow […]

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