Windows CE / Windows Embedded Compact Board Support Package

Production Ready BSP

A production ready BSP is tested and certified for stability, performance and completeness. With many SOCs packing multiple peripherals and cores into them, it takes a lot in bringing out the full performance of the hardware in the software. The key factor to be maintained is the stability while bringing out the features. A production ready BSP takes care of both ends of the spectrum and is tested thoroughly.

List of production ready BSPs that e-con Systems provide:

We are also experienced in using processor platforms like Cirrus, RMI, ATOM, Vortex86 and AMD.

Porting Board Support Packages and Support across Windows CE Versions

For over a decade now, Windows CE has been a preferred OS for devices and every version of the OS have their own distinctive advantages/features. If you would like to upgrade your product to the latest version, e-con Systems can do the porting and manage your existing applications as well.

Features of Windows Embedded Compact / Windows CE BSP

Real time performance - Windows CE can be used to develop an ergonomic and user friendly GUI. Being a hard real time OS, it can assure deterministic outputs which are essential in critical segments such as medical devices and real time monitoring and control systems.

Boot time optimization - We optimize boot loaders for the board to support special use cases and we have optimized boot time to less than a second for the Windows CE BSP.

Multicore Support - Hard real time task can be achieved easily by playing with thread priority and thread quantum; helps to control the power consumption of the system by letting us power off/on any CPU whenever required; lower possibilities of blocking the lower priority thread by higher priority threads as the tasks are shared on multiple core dynamically. e-con Systems has Windows CE BSP for IMX6 that supports multicore.

Development Support and debugging - We provide BSP with complete debugging and easy OS image build options, complete installation support for development, custom OS design support for quick development, remote debugging via Ethernet/USB RNDIS and debug serial port for driver and application development, active sync in WinCE 6.0 / WinCE 7.0 for application debugging, device firmware upgrade option through USB, custom shell to facilitate application development, sample application to test the peripherals and develop applications.

Testing and Certification - e-con Systems BSPs have gone through Windows Embedded CE Test Kit (CETK) / Windows Embedded Compact Test Kit (CTK). CTK is a tool that can be used to test the functionality and performance of device drivers and related hardware for a Windows Embedded Compact powered device. There are a number of components in the BSP and OS that could be tested with the test cases available in the CTK tool such as audio, backlight, battery, communication bus, display, file system, input, kernel, networking (Ethernet), OAL (OEM Abstraction layer), power manager, security, shell, storage media and USB.