Kontron Windows® CE Solution Pack

Introduction

Kontron have developed a number of drivers for use with their boards (including their DIMM-PC, ETX, PC/104 and miniboard range) that are able to be used with the Windows CE .NET Embedded Toolkit from Microsoft. Supports Windows CE 5.0 (Windows CE .NET),4.2, 4.1 and 4.0 as well as CE 2.12 and 3.0.

The current version of the Solution Pack includes:

• IDE Driver
• Bootloader
• Memory Handler
• Video Driver
• Serial Driver Configuration
• Ethernet Driver
• Audio Driver
• JIDA32 Library API
• JStart Flash/Hard Disk Application Launcher
• Registry Persistence
• Ethernet Download and Kernel Debugging

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IDE DRIVER

Allows read and write access to a maximum of four IDE-compatible hard and flash disk drives. The drives can contain a regular MS-DOS FAT file system. Without this driver Windows CE applications have no way of saving configuration or program data on a PC compatible platform. The root directory of the first hard disk will appear as "\Storage Card" in the root directory of the Windows CE file system and can be accessed with regular Win32 file API. Additional hard disk are numbered "\Storage Card2" and so on.

BOOTLOADER

Allows you to boot Windows CE directly from a BIOS (INT 13h) compatible hard or flash disk drive. Only the FAT 16 file system is supported. The loader can handle the NK.BIN file images that are generated by the Windows CE Embedded Toolkit. Without this loader you would need to boot MS-DOS prior to booting Windows CE and additional MS-DOS licenses would be required. Note that the IDE driver is not required for using the boot loader.

386 SUPPORT

Allows you to run Windows CE on 386 compatible processors. Without this component the minimum requirement would be a 486 compatible processor.

MEMORY

Allows you to utilize an additional 800 Kilobytes of memory under Windows CE that would otherwise be wasted. Includes support for more than 32 MB.

VIDEO DRIVERS

Adds support for the Cirrus Logic, CT, MGX, and ATI Rage graphics controllers that are used on
Kontron boards. Supported resolutions include:
· 320*200
· 640*480 VGA
· 320*240 Quarter VGA
· 800*600 (most drivers)
· 1024*768 (most drivers)
· Other resolutions on request (they may already be available, please ask)

ETHERNET

Adds support for the Crystal, Intel, AMD, and Davicom Ethernet controller that are used on Kontron boards.

FLOPPY DISK DRIVERS

Allows read and write access to one 1.44 MB PC-compatible floppy disk drive. The drive can contain a regular MS-DOS FAT file system.

AUDIO DRIVER

Adds Audio support for the Geode and ESS Solo1 chips that are used on Kontron boards.

JIDA32 LIBRARY API

Most Kontron PC boards are equipped with unique hardware features that cannot be accessed with
standard API. The JIDA interface allows you to access these features in a hardware independent manner under any Win32 based and other operating systems.

The interface DLL works under any flavour of Win32. The DLL communicates with a platform dependent driver. At the present time drivers are available for Windows 9x, Windows NT/2000, Windows CE, Linux, and VxWorks.

The Windows CE drivers have been included in the Windows CE Solution Pack for your convenience. To use JIDA32 Library in your application you must download the JIDA32 Library driver and development pack available as a separate archive. Please refer to the JIDA32.DOC manual for further information.

JStart Flash/Hard Disk Application Launcher

This component launches and application called "START.EXE" located in the root directory of the flash or hard disk. A sample "START.EXE" is provided in the kit.

Registry Persistence

Registry Persistence provides support for saving and restoring the Windows CE registry on an external drive such as an IDE compatible flash disk.