Windows Embedded CE Technical Specifications

Leverage your existing skills to build on the reliable, high performance Windows Embedded platform to bring your consumer and enterprise devices to market quickly.

Powering high-performance embedded devices to manage time-critical responses:

“Real-Time VALIDATED” – Windows Embedded CE 6.0 passed all real-time tests during an independent evaluation. Read up on the details in this report, Independent Real-Time Report for Windows.

The Windows Embedded CE 6.0 kernel handles more than 32,000 simultaneous processes, each with 2GB of virtual memory space. The file system supports larger storage media and file sizes (up to 4 GB) and removable media encryption.

Production-quality device drivers help decrease the amount of modification needed for drivers to work with custom hardware. Enhanced driver support helps ensure easy portability. Drivers can be run in kernel mode for performance or in user mode for robustness. Review the complete list of supported device drivers.

A one-tier security model feature is SDL compliant and helps ensure that only authenticated applications can run on an embedded device.

Debug, test, and make changes to an OS image with Access to Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Shared Source. Plus, make modifications and create differentiated features, while maintaining control over your intellectual property—without sharing your code.

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 works with key processor architectures (x86, ARM, and MIPS32). Its compatibility-testing tool has features to help port existing Win32 applications.

Write native or managed code by choosing your preferred Microsoft development technology—Win32, MFC, or the .NET Compact Framework (C#, VB). Use IntelliSense technology, syntax highlighting for editing source code, visually modify included components through the catalogue and configure registry and operating system setting files via editors.

Develop with the latest compilers that increase C++ language conformance; provide better libraries; support CRT, ATL, and MFC; and offer improved run-time security feature checks (/GS).

The same designers who create rich user experiences for the web with Silverlight and Windows through the Windows Presentation Foundation can now bring their creative talent to Silverlight for Windows Embedded on your embedded device using the purely graphical and visual Expression Blend tool.

Configure, build, and test operating system images with an ARM-based device emulator.

Necessary workstation elements for developing in Windows Embedded CE: