EDN HANDS-ON PROIECT: BUILDING POCKET POWER

摘要

After languishing in the shadow of the Palm Pilot, the Windows CE-based Pocket PC platform is showing new vigor and deserves careful consideration for your next embedded project. With a growing market share, significant operating-system upgrades, and a series of new hardware offerings, Pocket PCs have erased most of their earlier shortcomings and user concerns. But the key ingredients of widespread acceptance of a complex system such as the Pocket PC are the tools available to translate your design ideas into a viable product. So, during this project, I investigated off-the-shelf and mostly free development software for creating, debugging, and testing Pocket PC applications.