Windows embedded
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Video Presentations
2007
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.
2006
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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Microsoft-approved Gumstix BSP for Windows Embedded
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
Sources
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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Community projects: Gumstix BSP for Windows Embedded
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 for Windows Embedded BSP on Gumstix
===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.
