Recently, I met a prospect who asked me on what is meant by production ready Wince BSP for a reference design and why is there so much differences in the way the BSP is sold today.  I answered him and I also thought of sharing with you our thoughts on what is meant by a [...]

Windows CE, Windows CE BSP

Real Time Clock or RTC is an essential component in all embedded systems. Though all the modern day CPUs have inbuilt RTC, designers are comfortable with external RTC for some specific reasons such as to reduce the power burden, RTC alarms to wake-up the CPU etc. The power consumption of external RTC devices are extremely [...]

Windows CE, Windows CE I2C Driver, Windows CE OAL, Windows Mobile

Power management is an important aspect of the modern embedded devices. Flexibility in the OS Power Manager is the key driver to meet the requirements of myriad of devices. Windows CE offers this flexibility, though developer has to do a quick tweak to use it effectively. This blog describes the power manager in Windows CE, [...]

Hive Based Registry, Windows CE, Windows CE Power Manager

In order to mount RAMDISK in your device. There are two methods for mounting the RAMDisk.

I. First Method:

In the below dialog box of your workspace,

Project->Properties->configuration properties->Environment

Add the following sysgen variable.
SYSGEN_RAMDISK=1

After setting this environment variable “Sysgen” your workspace. Now the created NK.bin will mount the 1MB of your RAM as Mounted volume.

Now you can increase the [...]

Ram FileSystem., RAMDISK, Windows CE, Windows CE RAMDISK

Windows CE is a customizable OS and custom application has been executed on the top of the OS. Majority of the customers won’t prefer to use the windows CE standard utilities embed on the control panel. Instead they develop their own applications using the standard APIs. During these cases, customer won’t like the standard utility [...]

Hiding Activesync popup window, Hiding Pop-Up windows in Windows CE