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
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