KUKA RTOS - CeWin

What is CeWin® ?

Windows® CE is the embedded real-time operating system of Microsoft. It is well known in the world of Handhelds and Operating Panels but it offers much more in the embedded world
... a cost-effective embedded Operating system with hard real-time performance.

Windows® CE is used more and more in embedded control systems and industrial automation devices. It offers a number of distinct advantages: It has a small footprint, is very fast, hardware control interrupts can be accessed easily and it looks and feels like Windows.

CeWin® allows Windows® CE to be installed together with Windows XP/Vista on the same machine while keeping its full real-time capabilities.

The dual-OS system combining the universally known Windows® XP(e)/2000 communication and graphic capabilities with the Windows® CE hard real-time operating system offering many features and benefits:

known Hardware and real-time programming on Windows® XP(e)/2000 with a Windows look and feel real-time operating system:

	CeWin® features


Functionality of RTOSWin

Multitasking, intertask communication
Connectivity:
- TCP/IP (Winsock), COM/DCOM, SOAP, HTTP server, ISAPI, ASP, SOAP server, SOAP Client

Programming languages:
- C, C++, C#, Visual basic
Guaranteed response time within microseconds
- High resolution real-time timer
- Granularity 0.8 microseconds.
Hardware access to ISA and PCI plug in boards.
Communication between Windows® and Windows® CE
- via TCP/IP (virtual network).
- Usage of DCOM or SOAP as middleware for communication is possible.
Windows® CE keeps running even after Windows Blue Screen
Numerous software packages and drivers for Windows CE are available on the market e.g.
- OPC server
- drivers for field bus and measurement hardware
- and many more .......
Debugging of real-time code by using the well known Microsoft development tools
Availabiltity of powerful, graphical real-time analysis tools
- Kernel Tracker
- Profiling
Comprehensive documentation
- HTML, MSDN, newsgroup
Source code of many example drivers available

	CeWin® benefits

Reduced Hardware Costs
No need for separate control hardware or intelligent co-processor boards
Drastically increased MTBF due to fewer system components
Helps reducing size and weight of the total system
Reduced Software Costs
Fast learning curve
- known Windows® environment with Win32 API
Known development tools
- Visual Studio
- Embedded Visual C++
Use of only one development suite and programming language for
- Visualization
- Communication and
- Real-Time application
Re-use of existing Windows® or Windows® CE software and know-how
Non proprietary real-time extension
Remote debug fully supported
Hardware access possible through existing Windows® programs
- Kernel drivers don’t need to be developed
Remote debug fully supported
- Because it is a non proprietary real-time extension
Product Scalability
Integration of Windows® CE applications into a Windows based environment without additional hardware costs
Use of the same Windows® CE application in an embedded system, e.g. with XScale architecture

	New: CeWin Version 3.5

Dual-Core systems: Windows® CE now able to use the second CPU Core exclusively
Interrupt-Latencies below 10 usec!
Use Visual Studio 2005 to develop Windows® CE applications
Optimized Windows® CE PCI Enumerator
Automatic detection of interrupt conflicts

CeWin®

CeWin® is Windows® CE and Windows® XP / Vista

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