Audience

This course was designed to focus on the primary users of Platform Builder; the BSP (board support package) device developers.  While many sections of the course may also be helpful to Device Driver Developers, Device Application Developers, QA Engineers and others these are not the primary audiences for which the course was developed.  The course also assumes little to no knowledge of previous versions of Windows CE and is designed for engineers who are new to the world of Windows CE development.

Prerequisites

This course is intended for attendees that have a basic knowledge of the C programming language and embedded systems. While not required, it would be beneficial if attendees were familiar with Win32 API programming and device driver development.

Course Details

Day 1

Introduction to the Platform Builder IDE

The Win CE Development Environment
Introduction to the IDE
The Win CE Build Tools and Build System

Customizing the Operating System Design

Creating and Customizing the Operating System Design
Operating System Design Overview
Creating an OS Design
OS Design Customization with Catalog Components
Build Configuration Management
OS Design Property Pages

Configuring Windows Embedded CE Subprojects

Windows Embedded Subprojects Overview
Creating and Adding Subprojects to an OS Design
Configuring a Subproject

Managing Catalog Items

Catalog Files Overview
Creating and Modifying Catalog Entries
Catalog Component Dependencies

Day 2

Building and Deploying a Run-Time Image

Building a Run-Time Image
Build Process Overview
Building Run-Time Images in Visual Studio
Windows Embedded CE Run-Time Image Content

Editing Build Configuration Files

Dirs Files
Sources Files
Makefile Files

Analyzing Build Results
Understanding Build Reports
Troubleshooting Build Issues

Deploying a Run-Time Image on a Target Platform
Choosing a Deployment Method
Attaching to a Device

Lab: Building and Deploying a Run-Time Image on the Emulator
Build a Run-Time Image for an OS Design
Configure Connectivity Options
Change the Emulator Configuration

Test a Run-Time Image on the Device Emulator

Day 3

Generating a Software Development Kit

Software Development Kit Overview
SDK Generation

Customizing a Board Support Package
Board Support Package Overview
Adapting and Configuring a Board Support Package
Implementing a Boot Loader from Existing Libraries.

Adapting an OAL
Integrating New Device Drivers
Modifying Configuration Files

Configuring Memory Mapping of a BSP

System Memory Mapping
Memory Mapping and the BSP
Enabling Resource Sharing between Drivers and the OAL

Day 4

Developing Device Drivers

Understanding Device Driver Basics
Native and Stream Drivers
Monolithic vs. Layered Driver Architecture

Implementing a Stream Interface Driver

Device Manager
Driver Naming Conventions
Stream Interface API
Device Driver Context
Building a Device Driver
Opening and Closing a Stream Driver by Using the File API

Configuring and Loading a Driver

Device Driver Load Procedure
Kernel-Mode and User-Mode Drivers

Implementing an Interrupt Mechanism in a Device Driver

Interrupt Handling Architecture
Interrupt Identifiers (IRQ and SYSINTR)
Communication between an ISR and an IST
Installable ISRs

Exercise: Driver Code Examples

Code-walk-through of:
Stream device driver
Block device driver

Day 5

Debugging and Testing the System

Debugging and Target Device Control
Kernel Debugger
Debug Message Service
Debugger support features
CeLog Event Tracking and Processing

Configuring the Run-Time Image to Enable Debugging

Enabling the Kernel Debugger
KITL
Debugging a Target Device

Testing a System by using the CETK

Windows Embedded CE Test Kit Overview
Using the CETK
Creating a Custom CETK Test Solution
Analyzing CETK Test ResultsDebug Zones

Note:* Free target boards will be offered to only those who attend the program at its full price.