Windows CE 5.0 for real-time systems

Although Windows CE exposes the same Win32 Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) present on Microsoft desktop and server operating systems, its underlying operating system architecture is completely different from its desktop cousins. Windows CE – designed from the ground up to be a small footprint, componentized, hard real-time embedded operating system – combines support for desktop application development frameworks including Win32, MFC, AT, and .NET with a real-time kernel providing the operating system primitives needed to support today’s real-time embedded system designs. This article focuses on the operating system tools used to verify Windows CE 5.0 real-time behaviors.

By Mike Hall
November 13th, 2005

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Feature / Discussion: 2005-11-13Although Windows CE exposes the same Win32 Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) present on Microsoft desktop and server operating systems, its underlying operating system architecture is completely different from its desktop cousins. Windows CE – designed from the ground up to be a small footprint, componentized, hard real-time embedded operating system – combines support for desktop application development frameworks including Win32, MFC, AT, and .NET with a real-time kernel providing the operating system primitives needed to support today’s real-time embedded system designs. This article focuses on the operating system tools used to verify Windows CE 5.0 real-time behaviors.

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