Few days ago Microsoft was included in the ranking of the 10 most innovative companies of 2015 as part of the Internet of Things and this result can not be absolutely considered a case. Most likely, the main reasons that have enabled Microsoft to achieve this great result are two : The announcement of an operating system like Windows 10 that is able to run on any kind of device, from embedded systems, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and finally to the PC; The wide Microsoft Azure cloud services offer through which you can "accommodate" and analyze in real time the huge amount of data from the "things"; The Microsoft offer for the Internet of Things covers everything from embedded device (the "T") to the Cloud (the "I") failing to provide a solution under one "hat". What are the available technologies ? How can we really "bring" our "things" in the Cloud and make them an integral part of the Internet of "Your" Things as it was renamed by Microsoft ...
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As part of any sizable software development project, the need to perform repetitive testing and debugging tasks is a common routine. As part of a project to develop custom OS runtime image for a target device, deploying OS runtime image onto the target device for testing and debugging is one of the repetitive tasks. Without the tool to download the OS runtime image to the target device, it’s tedious and time consuming to have to manually transfer the image onto the device for each test and debug session.Compact 2013 provides an efficient development environment that enables you to download OS runtime image, generated from the OS design project, directly from the Visual Studio IDE to the target device for testing and debugging. In addition, the Compact 2013 development environment also provide a suite of tools to remotely debug the OS runtime image as the image execute on the device.
As part of any sizable software development project, the need to perform repetitive testing and debugging tasks is a common routine. As part of a project to develop custom OS runtime image for a target device, deploying OS runtime image onto the target device for testing and debugging is one of the repetitive tasks. Without the tool to download the OS runtime image to the target device, it’s tedious and time consuming to have to manually transfer the image onto the device for each test and debug session.
Compact 2013 provides an efficient development environment that enables you to download OS runtime image, generated from the OS design project, directly from the Visual Studio IDE to the target device for testing and debugging. In addition, the Compact 2013 development environment also provide a suite of tools to remotely debug the OS runtime image as the image execute on the device.
Whether you are working with Linux, Windows or other RTOS, develop custom OS runtime image for a targeted hardware platform, without help from efficient development tool, is a daunting, tedious and time consuming task. To help simplify the complexity in developing custom Compact 2013 OS runtime image, Microsoft provides the Platform Builder suite of tools, a set of free plug-in for the Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 IDE, available for download from Microsoft website. In part-2 of this Compact 2013 getting started series, we will work through the steps, using the Platform Builder plug-in for Visual Studio 2013, to develop an OS design project and generate an OS runtime image for a target device.
Whether you are working with Linux, Windows or other RTOS, develop custom OS runtime image for a targeted hardware platform, without help from efficient development tool, is a daunting, tedious and time consuming task. To help simplify the complexity in developing custom Compact 2013 OS runtime image, Microsoft provides the Platform Builder suite of tools, a set of free plug-in for the Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 IDE, available for download from Microsoft website.
In part-2 of this Compact 2013 getting started series, we will work through the steps, using the Platform Builder plug-in for Visual Studio 2013, to develop an OS design project and generate an OS runtime image for a target device.
A solution is now at hand with respect to interrupts being lost when they are close to a system timer tick interrupt, with TI AM335X CPU. THE LATEST UPDATE NOW HAS THIS SOLUTION.
Finally the new M2Mqtt 4.1 version is out !
In the last months, my library was under pressure thanks to my friends Olivier Vigliengo (from Adeneo) and Nicolas Besson (Microsoft MVP on Windows Embedded, from Adeneo). They used the MQTT client for their hobbistic projects and stressed it a lot !
After exchanging a lot of emails with log traces, I fixed some bugs and added some improvements to the library.
A new Compact 2013 release is available on MSDN that will bring your build environment up to date as per February 2015.
Slight change in CELOADER v1.3.0: new algorithm to handle the TFTP ACK receive delay.
CELOADER v1.2.0 sometimes freezes during the transfer because TFTP packet are lost, version v1.3.0 solves this problem by re-transmitting faulty TFTP packets.
Win32 on Galileo is smaller than the Desktop Win32, here is a quick technique to find if a Win32 function is available on Galileo.
The first "visible" step of the new .Net Micro Framework has been accomplished ... finally the official repository for the future versions is GitHub; viceversa all previous versions of the framework will remain onCodePlex as the forum. Each bug/issue reported on CodePlex will be evaluated and included as "work item" on GitHub.
Due to the "interpreter" nature of the runtime, the project was named ".Net Micro Framework Interpreter" but contains the interpreter, the BCL (Base Class Library) and the native code for porting.