March 27, 2012 - Adeneo Embedded announced the Windows Embedded Compact 7 reference board support package (BSP) for Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform, along with a full suite of support services, including customized support, training and development services, to assist original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) developing advanced multimedia and connected embedded devices. Targeting Xilinx Zynq-7000 EPP ZC702 Evaluation Kit, the Windows Embedded Compact 7 BSP is designed for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) developing embedded devices based on this platform.
The architecture of the BSP is fully compliant with Microsoft Production-Quality OEM Adaptation Layer (PQOAL) specifications to provide clear separations between CPU-dependent and board-dependent features, helping OEMs focus on adapting only the specific portions of code related to their custom design. The BSP also supports features such as symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and OpenGL ES1.1, enabling OEMs in developing advanced and complex embedded devices. This BSP is available in initial version for customers to start evaluating and prototyping systems built on Zynq-7000 devices with Windows Embedded Compact 7, with a full RTM release planned in Q3-2012. OEMs can already download the free binary image for evaluation, as well as request source code access from the Adeneo Embedded website.
Adeneo Embedded, a member of the Xilinx Alliance Program, collaborated with Xilinx to develop this reference BSP, and combines its deep knowledge of ARM technology with its extensive Windows Embedded Compact experience to create a breadth of expertise invaluable to OEMs seeking to differentiate their designs. This expertise uniquely positions Adeneo Embedded to deliver superior customer services supporting system integration, BSP, drivers and application development as well as performance optimization. Windows Embedded Compact 7 provides developers, designers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with a powerful real-time OS and a full suite of development tools, enabling an integrated, streamlined development experience to speed devices to market.
The Zynq-7000 family is Xilinx's first extensible processing platform (EPP) which delivers levels of performance that go beyond what traditional processing solutions can implement. The new class of semiconductor device combines an industry-standard ARM dual-core Cortex-A9 MPCore processing system with Xilinx 28nm scalable programmable logic architecture. Well suited for systems that require high, real-time performance, the Zynq-7000 EPP processor-centric architecture offers the flexibility and scalability of an FPGA combined with ASIC-like performance/power and microprocessor ease of programming.