Windows® Embedded CE

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Microsoft^® Windows Embedded CE is a 32-bit, componentized open operating system designed to power small footprint devices and enable fast time to market for highly differentiated products. Windows Embedded CE is used in a wide variety of devices from Portable Media Players to Voice-over-IP phones.

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(Windows Embedded CE Brochure)

ARM Advantage

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With more than 70 validated processors and thousands of shipping products, ARM is the leading architecture for Windows Embedded CE. The combination of Windows Embedded CE and ARM offers:

Feature	Description
Unique Product	Windows Embedded CE based products, such as Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded NavReady are exclusively available for the ARM architecture.
Hardware Support	ARM has the widest range of silicon partners producing a diverse assortment of SoC for a broad set of vertical markets.
Software Support	ARM is the leading architecture for Windows Embedded CE Board Support Package (BSP) availability.
Prototyping Support	The Platform Builder for Windows Embedded Device Emulator models an ARM-based virtual platform, providing software developers a fast, out-of-the-box environment capable for running the same binary applications as a physical device.

Microsoft's Windows Embedded group and ARM work together to ensure support for the latest ARM® architectures.

Architecture	v4	v5	v6	v7-A
OS Version \ Processor	ARM720 ARM920T ARM922T	ARM926EJ-S ARM1020E ARM1022E ARM1026EJ-S Marvell XScale	ARM1136J(F)-S ARM1176J(F)Z-S ARM11MPCore UP	Cortex-A8 Cortex-A9 UP
Windows CE 3.0 - 4.2	•	•
Windows CE 5	•	•	•
Windows Embedded CE 6	•	•	•¹	•¹

Note 1: uni-processor support only

Silverlight for Windows Embedded is a native (C++) UI framework that enables a new designer/developer paradigm that will dramatically improve the user interface on devices and the time and cost needed to deliver a differentiated experience.

Silverlight for Windows Embedded offers:

OEMs and partners the ability to create rich device UIs that will differentiate their products
Optimized performance on embedded devices, delivering impressive graphics with a high frame rate
Faster time to market, by breaking out design work from developer process, and utilizing Expressions Blend 2.0 tools
Better experience for both designers and developers

Silverlight for Windows Embedded is available from Windows Embedded CE6R3

For further details on Silverlight for Windows Embedded please see the introductory white papers below.

Introduction to Silverlight for Windows Embedded

Creating a Customer User Control in Silverlight for Windows Embedded

ARM technologies that help optimize and accelerate Windows Embedded CE development.

ARM Cortex Application Processors
TrustZone Security Technology
ARM Mali GPU's
ARM Advanced SIMD, NEON
OpenMAX Multimedia Acceleration Libraries
RealView Development Boards

CPU Family	CPU Derivative
Cortex	Cortex-A9 Cortex-A8 Cortex-A5
ARM11	ARM1176JZ(F)-S ARM11 MPCore ARM1136J(F)-S
ARM9	ARM926EJ-S ARM922T ARM920T

CPU Family

CPU Derivative

Cortex

ARM11

ARM1136J(F)-S

ARM9

ARM926EJ-S

ARM922T

ARM920T

ARM produces Board Support Package (BSP) examples and other helper software for Microsoft's Windows Embedded CE product to accelerate and optimize the development of ARM and Windows Embedded CE based products.

Source and binary downloads for the ARM RealView Development Boards as well as other software for Windows Embedded CE is available for download free of charge from Silver Connect

Additional resources for Windows Embedded CE include: