Toradex WinCE Libraries' Evolution: The New Library Approach Explained
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 Further information about our libraries including demo application downloads can be found in our developer center . Overview Over 10 years ago, we wrote some small pieces of WinCE code in order to demonstrate different features of our computer on modules (CoM), or system on modules (SoM); for example: GPIOs, I2C, Analog Inputs (ADC), etc. With the pure demo purpose in our minds we didn’t pay attention to things like maintenance, compatibility across different modules, etc. However, these demos were used by a huge Windows Embedded Compact customer base. We received more and more support and feature requests which we then started to integrate into the demo code. As a result, we got the library package for our PXA and Tegra ® based SoMs as it exists today. These libraries are a reliable and easy way of using our modules. But it wasn’t an easy way to get there with the many maintenance iterations and bending the API to make use of newer featu