Microsoft Windows® Embedded CE 6.0 Toolkit

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Windows® Embedded can help you turn your vision and ingenuity into superior business results by offering a great combination of the creative tools and technology you need and the support and resources Microsoft® and its partners can provide.

Designed specifically for embedded developers who need to bring new devices to market in minimum time and at the lowest possible cost, Windows Embedded CE 6.0 provides a 32-bit native hard real-time, small footprint operating system, a re-designed kernel, and powerful embedded development tools. CE 6.0 interoperates with industry standards and existing Microsoft desktop and server technologies to help you create differentiated devices for a broad range of device categories, from commercial devices to consumer electronics products.

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Key Features:

• Unified Kernel-The redesigned Windows Embedded CE 6.0 kernel now handles more than 32,000 simultaneous processes, each with 2 GB of virtual memory space. The new file system supports larger storage media and file sizes (up to 4 GB), and removable media encryption.
• Drivers- Production-quality device drivers help decrease the amount of modification needed for drivers to work with custom hardware, and enhanced driver support in CE 6.0 helps ensure easy portability. Drivers can be run in kernel mode for performance or in user mode for robustness.
• Security- The redesigned one-tier security model is SDL compliant and helps ensure that only trusted applications can run on your embedded device.
  Compatibility. CE 6.0 works with key processor architectures (x86, ARM, SH4, and MIPS) and, through its compatibility testing tool, has features to help port existing Win32 applications.
• Device Performance- Improvements to the kernel architecture have greatly reduced the overhead of system calls between base OS services, resulting in improved operating system performance.
  

Applications:

• Set-top boxes
• Thin clients
• Digital media adapters
• Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phones
• Navigation devices
• Medical devices
• Portable media players
• Home gateways
• Digital cameras
• Networked digital televisions
• PDAs