ARM Community: Windows Embedded Compact 7 is in orbit with ARM - ARM Community

Microsoft formally announced their Windows Embedded Compact 7 product which marked “15 years of leadership and innovation” in Embedded. The release happened at Embedded World - the European show for Embedded - on the same day ARM started our Embedded Community. In less than a month, events multiplied to show what this often called WinEC7 (WinCE7) is about. And today, Microsoft with Direct Insight, Freescale, Texas Instruments and Arrow invited everyone to Microsoft Campus in Reading, UK. Let’s take a look back and also forward…

Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7 Announces Another Investment in ARM

Gary Atkinson, ARM Embedded Marketing Director, explained the implication this new generation has for ARM. Also, I can advise you to look at the video in which Microsoft and Partners present their demo from the Embedded World show: Adeneo, Freescale and Texas Instruments are interviewed by our beautiful Andrew Frame.



Now, Windows Embedded Compact 7 not only supports ARMv7 Architecture (at the heart of the ARM Cortex processor families), but also supports symmetrical multi-processing (SMP). Last year, I was showing a demo of its ability to pass a task from one core to another, or to use the multi-processing without even having a glitch in the video playback… Satisfying.

WEC7 Launch Seminar

This day’s seminar was opened by Lorraine Bardeen - Microsoft EMEA Embedded Marketing Manager. Lorraine commented that the internet is entering the 4^th Stage the “Embedded Internet” and that we – the ecosystem – need to focus on bringing cloud computing potential to embedded devices.

After a first look at Compact 7 additional features from David Pashley (Direct Insight), Bryan Lawrence, ARM Solutions Marketing Manager, presented on the Applications Processors. You can download this presentation to learn more about the Cortex-A roadmap and ARM's vision: ARM Cortex-A Processors - Integrated, delivering and performing. “ARM processors are sipping at the power cup” is a really British quote which made my day!

OpenGL ES2.0 and better graphics abilities are major improvements demonstrated during the seminar thanks to Freescale and Direct Insight. Of course, Windows Compact Embedded 7 supports Microsoft Silverlight for media rich applications and user interfaces!

If you want to learn more and start your development, have a look now at Direct Insight training offering…

Another interesting day outside the office which was well worth the 5 hour travel!

Of course, if you have questions or feedback on the ARM roadmap as well as WinEC7, why not let us know through a comment or an email?
Also, if you have ideas you want to share on your future applications on Compact 7, please share!

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Alban Rampon - 冉昂理, Partnership Marketing Specialist, ARM, is an electronics engineer experienced in Automotive as well as Consumer and Industrial product design. He loves spending a lot of his time helping engineers worldwide with specialist questions in electronics and microcontrollers/networks in particular.
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