W4
BSPs and drivers CE 6.0
Writing BSP and drivers for Windows CE 6.0
Goals
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- 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
- Good knowledge of the C language
- Knowledge of application programming on Windows CE 6.0 (as described in W3 - Windows Embedded CE 6.0 course) is mandatory.
- Any embedded systems engineer or technician with the above prerequisites.
- Prerequisites are checked before the course starts, against the prerequisites published on this page.
- Throughout the course, learning is assessed continuously: guided lab work, exercises reviewed with the trainer, end-of-section quizzes and direct observation by the trainer.
- At the end of the course, each participant receives a training completion certificate.
Course Outline
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Kernel Debug
- Debug areas
- Just In Time Debugging (JIT)
- Kernel Profiler, Remote Kernel Tracker, Remote Call Profiler.
- Exception handling
- CETK Tests
- Using remote tools
- Bootloader development
- Develop the OEM Abstraction Layer (OAL)
- Configuration files
| Exercise: | Development of a serail line KITL | |
| Exercise: | Debug using the Lauterbach probe | |
- 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
| Exercise: | 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 | |
| Exercise: | Writing a LED driver | |
| • | management of power states | |
| Exercise: | Demonstrating the use of hardware traces (captured by the Embedded Trace Macrocell) for error detection and fix, using a Lauterbach probe. | |
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Last update of course schedule: 27 June 2026
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