AN254 Datasheet (Cirrus Logic) - Booting Windows CE Using RedBoot from a Windows Based Host PC

AN254, Booting Windows CE Using RedBoot from a Windows Based Host PC

AN254 www.DataSheet4U.com Booting Windows CE using RedBoot from a Windows Based Host PC by Gerry Vahe 1.

PURPOSE This application note will discuss a non-native way to load Windows CE® onto the Cirrus Logic EDB9312 development board.

Traditionally, to load a Windows CE image onto a hardware platform such as the EDB9312 requires that the host PC have Platform Builder® installed.

(Platform Builder is the Microsoft tool for Windows CE development and is used in conjunction with EBOOT to load an

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* that most other SOC processors don't have. It has an internal BootROM (masked in the silicon, unchangeable by the user) that performs the functions that a boot loader performs. While this is an outstanding feature, the BootROM needs to make certain assumptions in order to be functional in most situa