Regarding PCMCIA

NTDEV
1

Hi all
i have to develop a PCMCIA driver for Win CE,which is
going to run on a PDA(hand held device ).
My doubt is what platform shall i use to develop the
driver and how will i download the OS image to the PDA
?
does the PDA has serial interface for download and
debug ?

thanks
shiva

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There are examples in Platform Builder (the tool required to build a WinCE
image). If you don’t have that tool, you are going to be at a severe
disadvantage. As far as a platform, I would recommend developing on an
eval board that has its own BSP (board support package). You cannot do any
kernel debugging on a PocketPC AFAIK…

There is also an (incomplete) series of articles on www.pbdeveloper.com that
might help you get started.

  • Dennis

Dennis Merrill
Embedded Systems Engineer
Thermo?Electron Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: shiva mallu [mailto:xxxxx@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:45 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Regarding PCMCIA

Hi all
i have to develop a PCMCIA driver for Win CE,which is
going to run on a PDA(hand held device ).
My doubt is what platform shall i use to develop the
driver and how will i download the OS image to the PDA
?
does the PDA has serial interface for download and
debug ?

thanks
shiva

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Hi,

You did’t mention that you are going to write
a UserMode/Stream driver or a Kernel mode driver that
goes with the CE image.

Since you might be writing a driver for your pcmcia
device, I feel you are writing a Stream driver. For this
there are plenty of articles in WindowsCE site about the
architecture of stream drivers.

You will be making calls to the cardservices of the platform
to communicate with the hardware. Your driver will be registerd
as a DLL. There are samples of this in the platform builder too.

As far as development platform is concerned you can Use WIN2000 or
XP with Embedded VC++3.0 or Embedded VC++4.0 running on it.
You don’t need platform buildeer for this. You might need the
libraries , header files from the OEM of the PDA who provided the
cardservices in “PCMCIA.DLL” on the PDA.

In order to transfer the image on to the PDA you might have to use
MicrosoftActive Sync utility.

I am sorry If you are not developing a stream driver and you are
planning to Install new HBA for the PCMCIA device, then you need platform
builder and the setup is a whole bunch different.

Hope this helps

Venkatram.Vajjhula
Tektronix Engg Dev, Bangalore.

-----Original Message-----
From: shiva mallu [mailto:xxxxx@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:15 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Regarding PCMCIA

Hi all
i have to develop a PCMCIA driver for Win CE,which is
going to run on a PDA(hand held device ).
My doubt is what platform shall i use to develop the
driver and how will i download the OS image to the PDA
?
does the PDA has serial interface for download and
debug ?

thanks
shiva

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Thanks
Venkatram i will get back to u.

shiva
— xxxxx@exgate.tek.com wrote:

Hi,

You did’t mention that you are going to write
a UserMode/Stream driver or a Kernel mode driver
that
goes with the CE image.

Since you might be writing a driver for your
pcmcia
device, I feel you are writing a Stream driver. For
this
there are plenty of articles in WindowsCE site about
the
architecture of stream drivers.

You will be making calls to the cardservices of
the platform
to communicate with the hardware. Your driver will
be registerd
as a DLL. There are samples of this in the platform
builder too.

As far as development platform is concerned you can
Use WIN2000 or
XP with Embedded VC++3.0 or Embedded VC++4.0 running
on it.
You don’t need platform buildeer for this. You might
need the
libraries , header files from the OEM of the PDA who
provided the
cardservices in “PCMCIA.DLL” on the PDA.

In order to transfer the image on to the PDA you
might have to use
MicrosoftActive Sync utility.

I am sorry If you are not developing a stream driver
and you are
planning to Install new HBA for the PCMCIA device,
then you need platform
builder and the setup is a whole bunch different.

Hope this helps

Venkatram.Vajjhula
Tektronix Engg Dev, Bangalore.

-----Original Message-----
From: shiva mallu [mailto:xxxxx@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:15 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Regarding PCMCIA

Hi all
i have to develop a PCMCIA driver for Win CE,which
is
going to run on a PDA(hand held device ).
My doubt is what platform shall i use to develop the
driver and how will i download the OS image to the
PDA
?
does the PDA has serial interface for download and
debug ?

thanks
shiva

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If it is a PCMCIA card, it should be set up as a stream driver. No doubt
about that.

He does need the Platform Builder CD’s. You need the header files and
libraries that are included on it. No, he does not need to go the route of
using the Platform Builder program for making a stream driver but there is
no way to DEBUG his stream driver without having kernel debugging available.
If this is a fairly complex driver, he will be at an extreme disadvantage by
not having kernel debugging facilities.

  • Dennis

Dennis Merrill
Embedded Systems Engineer
Thermo?Electron Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@exgate.tek.com
[mailto:xxxxx@exgate.tek.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:46 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: Regarding PCMCIA

Hi,

You did’t mention that you are going to write
a UserMode/Stream driver or a Kernel mode driver that
goes with the CE image.

Since you might be writing a driver for your pcmcia
device, I feel you are writing a Stream driver. For this
there are plenty of articles in WindowsCE site about the
architecture of stream drivers.

You will be making calls to the cardservices of the platform
to communicate with the hardware. Your driver will be registerd
as a DLL. There are samples of this in the platform builder too.

As far as development platform is concerned you can Use WIN2000 or
XP with Embedded VC++3.0 or Embedded VC++4.0 running on it.
You don’t need platform buildeer for this. You might need the
libraries , header files from the OEM of the PDA who provided the
cardservices in “PCMCIA.DLL” on the PDA.

In order to transfer the image on to the PDA you might have to use
MicrosoftActive Sync utility.

I am sorry If you are not developing a stream driver and you are
planning to Install new HBA for the PCMCIA device, then you need platform
builder and the setup is a whole bunch different.

Hope this helps

Venkatram.Vajjhula
Tektronix Engg Dev, Bangalore.

-----Original Message-----
From: shiva mallu [mailto:xxxxx@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:15 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Regarding PCMCIA

Hi all
i have to develop a PCMCIA driver for Win CE,which is
going to run on a PDA(hand held device ).
My doubt is what platform shall i use to develop the
driver and how will i download the OS image to the PDA
?
does the PDA has serial interface for download and
debug ?

thanks
shiva

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By the way, the eval version of Platform Builder should be good enough. I
think it is still available for the price of shipping.

Dennis Merrill
Embedded Systems Engineer
Thermo?Electron Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: shiva mallu [mailto:xxxxx@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:51 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: Regarding PCMCIA

Thanks
Venkatram i will get back to u.

shiva
— xxxxx@exgate.tek.com wrote:

Hi,

You did’t mention that you are going to write
a UserMode/Stream driver or a Kernel mode driver
that
goes with the CE image.

Since you might be writing a driver for your
pcmcia
device, I feel you are writing a Stream driver. For
this
there are plenty of articles in WindowsCE site about
the
architecture of stream drivers.

You will be making calls to the cardservices of
the platform
to communicate with the hardware. Your driver will
be registerd
as a DLL. There are samples of this in the platform
builder too.

As far as development platform is concerned you can
Use WIN2000 or
XP with Embedded VC++3.0 or Embedded VC++4.0 running
on it.
You don’t need platform buildeer for this. You might
need the
libraries , header files from the OEM of the PDA who
provided the
cardservices in “PCMCIA.DLL” on the PDA.

In order to transfer the image on to the PDA you
might have to use
MicrosoftActive Sync utility.

I am sorry If you are not developing a stream driver
and you are
planning to Install new HBA for the PCMCIA device,
then you need platform
builder and the setup is a whole bunch different.

Hope this helps

Venkatram.Vajjhula
Tektronix Engg Dev, Bangalore.

-----Original Message-----
From: shiva mallu [mailto:xxxxx@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:15 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Regarding PCMCIA

Hi all
i have to develop a PCMCIA driver for Win CE,which
is
going to run on a PDA(hand held device ).
My doubt is what platform shall i use to develop the
driver and how will i download the OS image to the
PDA
?
does the PDA has serial interface for download and
debug ?

thanks
shiva

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