Apr
13
2006
2

WinCE and Virtualization

With the advent of virtualization in desktop and server computing for variety of reasons it’s imperative that embedded systems too see a growth of this approach in coming years. WinCE emulator is a virtual machine already. Only problem with it is that it’s limited in it’s functionality. We need to see more functional virtual machines for exploit full power of WinCE and development conveniences, testability and debugability that it brings along. Over the years VMWare has proven that virtual machine provides great benefits for build -> test -> debug development cycles. I am sure embedded operating system and OEMs will come up with something similar before very long.
References

  1. Vmware – http://www.vmware.com/
  2. Microsoft Virtual PC – http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
Written by Asang Dani in: Default, Embedded Systems, WinCE |
Apr
09
2006
0

BitsyXb – Compact 300$ WinCE PXA270 SBC

This one is really nice XScale 520MHz PXA270 SBC with WinCE 5.0 BSP. Has one USB Host and one function, builtin LCD controller. Manufactured by Applied Data Systems:

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS5947193247.html

Written by Asang Dani in: Embedded Systems, News, WinCE |
Apr
08
2006
1

MIT 100$ laptop project (OLPC)

Unlike Simputer which failed to deliver on it’s promise, and is limited to small form-factor, this one appears to be for real and it’s not pipedreaming. Wonderful effort and vision on part of MIT Media Lab. Following is the interview by Nicholas Negroponte – MIT Media Lab Director.

http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/apr/07laptop.htm

Best of all, this laptop proposes to run on human power i.e. powered by motion of arms and feet and targeted for use in schools. Surely does seem possible with school kids being as active as they are! They have a stated goal of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).

References

  1. MIT Media Lab
  2. Homepage of Nicholas Negroponte (Director Media Lab at MIT)
  3. MIT Media Lab and 100$ laptop
  4. OLPC website
Written by Asang Dani in: Default, News |
Apr
06
2006
1

State of The RTOS Report

The recent report on RTOS capabilities of VxWorks, WinCE 5.0, MontaVista Linux 2.1 is a nice comparison of these popular platforms. For WinCE 5.0 in particular, it was stated that Platform Builder – the choice for creating BSP is not reliable. I don’t know what led the authors to this conclusion, but I disagree with this. It may be diffcult to find out a mistake by looking and output windows error messages, but PB is quite stable (though somewhat slow at times) and I have used it extensively for quite some time now and I don’t think of a better environment to get started. In addition it also enables you to build entirely using command-line if you wish. So GUI/CLI is a matter of choice.

Written by Asang Dani in: Default, Embedded Systems, WinCE |

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