Adeneo Embedded releases BeagleBone Windows Embedded Compact 7 BSP for Community

Leveraging the latest “Unified BSP” for Texas Instruments (TI) Cortex^TM-A8 MPUs,

Adeneo Embedded supports the BeagleBone community with Windows Embedded Compact 7

Ecully, France and Bellevue, WA, June 5, 2012 - Adeneo Embedded, a platinum member of the Texas Instruments Design Network, and a Microsoft Windows Embedded Gold Partner and recipient of the “Windows Embedded Excellence Award” from 2007 through 2011, announces the availability of Windows Embedded Compact 7 reference board support packages (BSPs), along with a full suite of support services, including customized support, training and development services, for the Sitara^TM AM335x ARM® Cortex^TM-A8 processor-based community board, the BeagleBone.

BeagleBone is  a low-cost, high-expansion board that can either works stand-alone or acts as a USB or Ethernet connected expansion companion for BeagleBoard and BeagleBoard-xM boards, based on 720MHz Sitara^TM MPU AM3359 with 256MB DDR2 memory.

BeagleBone BSP developed by Adeneo Embedded is based on the latest version of the Texas Instruments “unified BSP” for Windows Embedded Compact 7 which supports TI ARM® Cortex^TM-A8 devices, including OMAP35x, AM335x, AM35x, AM37x, AM387x Sitara^TM ARM® MPUs and DaVinci DM37x and DM816x video processors. Through a strategic collaboration between TI and Adeneo Embedded, this unified BSP is available from Adeneo Embedded website since February 2012.

Windows Embedded Compact 7 provides developers, designers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with a powerful real-time OS and a full suite of development tools, enabling an integrated, streamlined development experience to speed devices to market.

The Sitara AM335x platform used on the BeagleBone is a cost and performance optimized solution targeting portable, pocket-sized applications. Starting at $5 and consuming as low as 7 mW of power, the AM335x ARM® Cortex^TM-A8 processors provide low power consumption while prolonging battery life and reducing heat emissions. Developers have access to a high performance processor with advanced 3D graphics capabilities, touch screen controller and sophisticated peripherals all on a single chip.

"Releasing this new BSP for the BeagleBone community board highlights our commitment to Texas Instruments and Microsoft to support OEMs from early prototyping to shipment of their devices," said Yannick Chammings, chief executive officer, Adeneo Embedded. "Our ‘community board’ strategy was initiated with the release of Windows Embedded Compact 7 BSP for BeagleBoard xM. With the availability of the BSP for BeagleBone, customers can now evaluate Windows Embedded Compact 7 on the whole scope of development platforms available for TI MPUs, covering prototyping, early evaluation, as well as industrial development stages.”

“Texas Instruments is excited to have Adeneo Embedded's support of the BeagleBoard community with a BeagleBone-based Windows Embedded Compact 7 BSP,” said Thomas Kelly, director, TI’s Design Network. “The combination of BeagleBone and Windows Embedded Compact will ease the development of new innovative intelligent embedded systems for community members and OEMs alike,”

“Adeneo Embedded’s support for the Windows Embedded Compact platform on the BeagleBone community board opens new opportunities for better innovation across the device development cycle, giving customers greater ability to create optimized devices to power intelligent systems for the enterprise,” said Lorraine Bardeen, marketing director for Windows Embedded EMEA at Microsoft.

OEMs interested in using these technologies for their devices can discuss further support options available by contacting our sales team at sales@adeneo-embedded.com. Windows Embedded Compact 7 reference BSP for BeagleBone is available on Adeneo Embedded website: http://www.adeneo-embedded.com.

About Adeneo Embedded

Adeneo Embedded provides system integration, design, support and training services to companies seeking world-class expertise in embedded solutions using high-performance architectures. For over 10 years, Adeneo Embedded has helped clients, in all stages of development; create profitable, feature-rich products that incorporate software and hardware solutions based on Windows Embedded, Windows Phone or .NET Micro Framework operating systems. Close working partnerships with industry-leading silicon and software vendors allow Adeneo Embedded to apply its experience to a wide range of embedded solutions for the automotive, industrial, medical,  multi-media, navigation,  networking, mobile and wireless markets. Adeneo Embedded has a global sales and support network backed by engineering offices in North America and Europe.

About the Texas Instruments Design Network

Adeneo Embedded is a platinum member of the TI Design Network, a premier group of independent, well-established companies that offer products and system-level design and manufacturing services complementing TI’s semiconductors to a worldwide customer base to accelerate product innovation and time-to-market. Network members provide product design, hardware and software system integration, turnkey product design, RF and processor system modules, reference platforms, software development, proof-of-concept design, feasibility studies, research, certification compliance, prototyping, manufacturing, and product life cycle management. For more information about the TI Design Network, please visit http://www.ti.com/designnetwork.

Trademarks

OMAP, Sitara and DaVinci are trademarks of Texas Instruments.  All other trademarks and registered trademarks belong to their respective owners.

© 2012 Adeneo Embedded. All Rights Reserved. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders

Further information

For more information about Adeneo Embedded competences, products and services around Windows Embedded technologies:

Ä  visit Adeneo Embedded dedicated web site                        www.adeneo-embedded.com

Ä  Adeneo Embedded General sales contact               sales@adeneo-embedded.com

For a local contact in

Ä  Europe, please contact Jeremy Delicato                 jdelicato@adeneo-embedded.com

Ä  America, please contact Mike Ruiz                          mruiz@adeneo-embedded.com

Adeneo Press Contacts

Valerie Cote

Executive Assistant, Adeneo Embedded (EU)

Phone   +33 426-492-539

E-mail   vcote@adeneo-embedded.com

Kathleen Wright

Office Manager, Adeneo Embedded (USA)

Phone   +1 (425) 749-4335

E-mail   kwright@adeneo-embedded.com

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Check out Olivier's Bloch blog for details

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July2011 Optional Updates Are On ECE For XPe SP3, Standard 2009 and Standard 7

July2011 Optional Updates Are On ECE For XPe SP3, Standard 2009 and Standard 7: "

*UPDATED 8/10/11 - Added link for Standard 7*

The July 2011 Optional Updates are now available on the ECE site for Windows® Embedded Standard 2009, Microsoft® Windows® XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Embedded Standard 7. Fixes include:

The list below applies to XP Embedded SP3 and Windows Embedded Standard 2009

KB2540135 - This update fixes the following issue

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  This update fixes an issue where the File Based Write Filter (FBWF) Provider might crash while getting FbwfCacheDetail instances, after seven or more files have been added to or changed in the FBWF overlay, resulting in the FbwfCacheDetail instances containing corrupted file names in the FileName property.

  
  

The list below applies to XP Embedded SP3, Windows Embedded Standard 2009 and Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1

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  KB2539566 – This update fixes the following issues

  
  




• The Enhanced Write Filter Provider will crash if all EWF volumes have their Overlays disabled and the user tries to subscribe to a EwfOverlayStoreConfiguration event query. Until the new EWF Provider instance is created, all other commands will fail. Expected return code in this case would be 0x80070057 = ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER. If a crash has occurred, the return code is 0x80041004 = WBEM_E_PROVIDER_FAILURE.


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  The event notification threshold values in EWF are inverted.

  
  

The list below applies to Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1 and Windows Embedded Standard 7

KB2570814 (Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1 only)- This update fixes the following issues:

• FBWFAPI by design does not allow multiple commands to be executed at the same time and it returns a clear error. The fix introduces locks in the File Based Write Filter (FBWF) Provider’s FBWFAPI calls, and all parallel requests will get served without errors returned.


• The cache detail (changed or added files in the FBWF cache) file can be flushed from the cache in the timespan between FbwfCacheDetail instantiation and property data gathering, which results in property data gathering returning an unexpected error.


• The event notification threshold values in FBWF are inverted.

KB2573437- This update fixes the following issue:

• The runtime to be incorrectly configured as “SERVICE_DEMAND_START”. Specifically, when the “Enhanced Write Filter with HORM” package is added to an image with one or more protected volumes that are configured with default settings for “DisableDefragSvc”, the runtime should be configured to disable Auto Defragmentation service (DefragSvc), by setting the “DefragSvc” service to “SERVICE_DISABLED”.


• This update also fixes the following issue for Windows Embedded Standard 7:




• An issue that causes EWF to be configured on all existing volumes on the system. Specifically, when the “Enhanced Write Filter with HORM” package is added to an image with one or more protected volumes that are configured with default settings for “EWFMode”. To correctly install this update, this KB must be applied to a Distribution Share prior to building and subsequent deployment of an image. Note that this fix was incorporated into Windows Embedded Standard SP1 when it shipped.

KB2573449 - This update fixes the following issues:

• Extends EWF support for storage devices that use TRIM. Without this update, TRIM commands sent by the Filesystem will bypass EWF and violate write filtering guarantees provided by EWF.


• This update also fixes the following issue for Windows Embedded Standard 7:




• A fatal registry corruption or BlueScreen (STOP error) can occur when EWF is enabled and “ewfmgr /all /commitanddisable” is executed followed by a reboot. Note that this fix was incorporated into Windows Embedded Standard SP1 when it shipped.

If you have questions on accessing the ECE, please email MS Mobile & Embedded Communications Feedback & Support, ECE@microsoft.com.

Thanks,

- Lynda

Technorati Tags: XPe,Embedded Standard,WES7

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Windows Embedded Compact 7 Silverlight OpenGL Rendering Plug-in for the Freescale i.MX53 QSb

Windows Embedded Compact 7 Silverlight OpenGL Rendering Plug-in for the Freescale i.MX53 QSb: "

Developers who have selected the Freescale i.MX53 QSb to run nice multimedia applications with the Windows Embedded Compact 7 operating system can benefit from an optimized rendering solution.

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Windows Embedded Compact 7 Self Train Videos

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Check out the videos at : Microsoft Showcase.

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