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Chapter 1: Windows Embedded CE
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Most hardware vendors have reference platforms with the necessary device drivers, Board Support
Package (BSP), and Software Development Kit (SDK) to support CE. The BSP is a collection of device
drivers and OEM Adaptation Layer (OAL) code for the hardware.
Microsoft maintains a long list of embedded processor boards and systems with BSP available to support
Windows Embedded CE.
The following URL provides a list of hardware with BSPs for the OS.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/embedded/aa714506.aspx
If this URL is broken, search
www.microsoft.com using the “Windows CE” and
“supported BSP” keywords.
New Features in CE 6.0 R2
About a year after the initial CE 6.0 release, CE 6.0 R2 was released with additional features and
improvements. CE 6.0 R2 is delivered as an overlay to the originally installed CE 6.0. For the
development workstation that already has CE 6.0 installed, the CE 6.0 R2 installation will keep the
existing BSPs and OS designs previously created. The CE 6.0 R2 installation incorporates all the Quick
Fix Engineering (QFE) and updates that have been released for CE 6.0. Following are the key features
added for CE 6.0 R2:
The flash driver and Secure Digital controller drivers have been improved. The Secure Digital
controller driver has been updated to support the Secure Digital 2.0 specification. The Secure
Digital 2.0 provides better performance and enables faster speeds for SDIO modules. It also
supports higher - capacity memory cards, up to 32 GB.
A new USB smart - card reader driver has been added to support the USB Chip/Smart Card
Interface Devices Specification.
The ATAPI storage driver has been upgraded to include support for the Serial ATA disk controller.
The BIOSLoader has been upgraded to overcome the 2 - GB limit of the old FAT16 file partition.
A Pluggable Font technology has been added to enable a third - party font engine to be used.
Three Board Support Packages (BSPs) were added — an x86 - based HP/Compaq t5530
thin - client BSP, an SH4 - based ST7109 BSP, and an ARMV4I - based Marvel PXA270 BSP.
The Terminal Services Client has been improved. RDP 5.2 has been upgraded to RDP 6.0, which
brings the RDP stack for Windows Embedded CE in line with the stack used for Windows Vista.
RDP 6.0 also provides support for spanning a remote desktop session across multiple local
displays. The RDP 6.0 update also provides significant improvement in security through Secure
Socket Layer (SSL), Transport Layer Security (TLS), Network Level Authentication (NLA), and
Server Authentication.
Internet Explorer (IE) 6.0 has improved significantly. It has been updated to provide better
security and performance. The IE team back - ported some of the algorithms to increase
performance for IE 7.0 to IE 6.0 for Windows Embedded CE.
Added support for Web Services on Device (WSD). WSD is a Microsoft implementation of the
Devices Profile for Web Services standard. WSD provides a method for a discovery protocol to take
place between new devices being attached to the network and devices already on the network.
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