W4 BSPs and drivers CE 6.0

Writing BSP and drivers for Windows CE 6.0

Windows Embedded CE is a registered trade mark of Microsoft


Goals
	Master the cross development tools
	Bring the system on the target
	Accessing I / O
	Install kernel interrupt routines and applications
	Develop drivers and Board Support Packages


Course material
	A windows PC and an Atmel target board for two trainees
	Platform Builder for CE 6.0
	Visual Studio 2005
	A Lauterbach probe, with the Windows CE kernel awareness module
	Printed course material and labs solutions


Prerequisite
	Good knowledge of the C language
	Knowledge of application programming on Windows CE 6.0 (as described in cours W3) is mandatory.

Outline


Overview of WindowsCE
	Architecture and versions of Windows CE
	What's new in version 6.0
	Technologies and processors supported
	Embedded specific settings
	Shared source code and licensing system
	Comparison with Windows XP Embedded.
	Comparison with Windows Mobile
	Development tools for Windows Embedded CE
Windows CE architecture
	The Windows CE Kernel
	The Device Manager
	The Graphical Windowing and Events System (GWES)
	Communications services
	Timers, Watchdog timers.
	Interruptions,
		IRQs (Interrupt ReQuest)
		ISR (Interrupt Service Routine)
		The IST (Interrupt Service Thread)
		Interruption APIs

	Memory architecture.
Platform Builder in brief
	Steps to build a Windows Embedded CE platform
	Creating projects and source Workspaces
	Modules and components of the OS
	The source code configuration files
		DIRS
		SOURCES
		Makefile
		Module definition

	Build phases
		Compile
		Sysgen
		Release copy
		Make image


	Configuring Debug and Release configuration
Test and debug
	Kernel Debug
	Debug areas
	Just In Time Debugging (JIT)
	Kernel Profiler, Remote Kernel Tracker, Remote Call Profiler.
	Exception handling
	CETK Tests
	Using remote tools
Developing the Board Support Package (BSP)
	Bootloader development
	Develop the OEM Abstraction Layer (OAL)
	Configuration files
Exercice :			Development of a serail line KITL
Exercice :			Debug using the Lauterbach probe
Device driver development
	Introduction
	Driver types
	Stream drivers
		interface
		installation (static and dynamic)

	User mode drivers
	Access to physical memory
	Interrupt management
	Parameter marshalling
	Power management
	Test and debug
Exercice :			Writing a fully functional button driver • driver installation • physical memory access • interrupt management • asynchronous access to the user buffer • registration of a button as an alarm source • writing a CETK test
Exercice :			Writing a LED driver • management of power states
Exercice :			Demonstrating the use of hardware traces (captured by the Embedded Trace Macrocell) for error detection and fix, using a Lauterbach probe.

Duration	Cost	Calendar
3 days	1750 €
This course can be provided either in our Paris training center or, worldwide, on your premises