Cloud computing and Big Data

Cloud computing is an emerging technology and one can come across lot of mis-interpretations. And Big Data is another terminology creating confusions. The story does not stop there, it applies to Internet of Things, Intelligent Systems etc. In this blog, let me explain some of the basic concepts on Cloud computing and make it easy to interpet :)

Intel Atom - Intel's answer for embedded processors

ARM, undisputed king of the embedded market is being challenged by x86 :)

Intel is trying to capture market through it's Atom series of processors. How far it succeeds is worth watching.

Windows CE Development Tools: Platform Builder and Visual Studio

It is important to note that "Platform Builder" is made available as a plug-in for Visual Studio, starting for CE 6.0. However, the catch is Visual Studio would require a service pack (or patch, if you wish).
Visual Studio is used as a standard development tool for developing most of the windows application. Hence when a standard release is made, it has to take care of evolution of so many applications(compilers and other internal build utilities).
Similarly, the major versions of windows are released first and then the corresponding embedded versions. For eg: Windows 7 is released first and then the underlying embedded OS like Windows Embedded Standard 7.
Adding 2 + 2, a service pack is provided for Visual Studio to accommodate platform builder tool, to support development of windows CE based OSs.

Windows Embedded Compact 2013 - Visual Studio 2012 with SP1

Windows Embedded Compact 7 - Visual Studio 2008 with SP1

Windows Embedded CE 6 - Visual Studio 2005 with SP1

Windows CE 5 - Platform Builder 5, eVC++

Winodows CE 4.2 .Net -

Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (WEC2013 or WCE2013 or WEC vNext ...) - The Windows Embedded Compact 7 Successor

The successor to Windows Embedded Compact 7 is initially named as WEC vNext. Now it is officially named as Windows Embedded Compact 2013.
(check out - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows-embedded/archive/2012/11/14/windows-embedded-compact-v-next-uncovered.aspx#comment-821339183)

The important previous versions and their uniqueness are -
CE7: Windows Embedded Compact 7
- Silverlight for Embedded: Application developments made easy, synching designers and developers.
- IE: Panning, zooming, multitouch and viewing bookmarks using thumbnails, etc
- Multicore support

CE6: Windows Embedded CE 6.0
- Significant change in architecture over previous versions of CE
- Incremental updates to features as R1, R2 and R3 releases
- Silverlight introduced, Microsoft office and PDF viewers support too.

CE5: Windows CE 5.0
- Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) introduced
- Updates to Graphics and Multimedia support

CE4: Windows CE .Net 4.2
- .Net Compact Framework introduced

CE3: Windows CE 3.0
CE2: Windows CE 2.1
CE1: Windows CE 1.0
- Launch of first version, Nov 1996

For more details, please check “windowsembedded.com” and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_CE

Windows Mobile Successor? ... WEH 6.5 Successor??? ... Windows Embedded 8 Handheld

Windows Embedded 8 Handheld

It's official!!!

Microsoft has announced next version of Windows Embedded Handheld.
For all those, industrial rugghed hand-held lovers, here is the link:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Features/2012/Nov12/11-13EmbeddedRoadmap.aspx

The future choice of ruggedized handhelds. Check gartner report giving details.
http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1DSUT58&ct=130129&st=sb

For more details, visit www.windowsembedded.com

The next version of compact is also named officially as Windows Embedded Compact 2013.

WEH 6.5 Porting

Windows Mobile evolved in to Windows Embedded Handheld(WEH 6.5) and Windows Phone(WP7).
Windows Mobile 6.5.3 is the last release.
WEH 6.5 is for Industrial Mobile Segment.
WP 7 is for Consumer Mobile Segment.

We are successful in porting WEH 6.5 on Windows CE 5.0 based device.
The major challenge was flash chip - mDOC H3 1GB. The chip is EOL and no support from vendor.
The flash chip was from M-Systems in the beginning and SanDisk took over later. However, now it is not supported, which makes development work a lot harder than required.

Our team is capable of addressing any issue while using this chip. Please contact for any help.

- Chandra
cshalive@gmail.com