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Porting WinCE to support Hitachi SH7727 Processor based board.

The Customer
Our customer is an embedded solution provider.

The Challenge
Our customer wants to port WinCE onto a Hitachi SH7727 based board. The end customer is in the process of building a device that would be used in a traffic controller equipment. The board supports Serial interface, LCD display, Flash, Ethernet and A/D converter.

The Solution

The project involved :

Phase 1 :

Writing a boot loader for downloading and writing the image into the flash. It supports both Serial and ethernet download.
Customizing the OAL to run on the target board.
Providing support for KITL
Writing/Customizing the drivers for :

- Serial interface

- Display device

- Flash

- Ethernet

- A/D converter

Phase 2 :

Power management support

With the kind of technical expertise we have, the first part i.e Boot loader, OAL , Serial driver, display driver and A/D converter driver/library were completed in a short time. Currently the second phase is in progress.

The Result

WinCE was supported on the Hitachi SH7727 processor based hardware platform and the Operating system vendor was able to successfully demonstrate WinCE running on the target platform. GRACELABS acquired technical expertise on one more SOC platform in areas like boot loader, OS porting, driver development and BSP development.