WinCE 4.2 - XScale

Hi,

We are planning to design a couple of .Net CF 1.0 and 2.0 (C#) based
applications for WinCE 4.2 and 5.0.

Among various devices to be tested upon, we need to work with LXE MX5
device running on Intel XScale PXA255 400MHz with Win CE 4.2.

We have been able to get majority of information needed at
http://www.infologixsys.com/products/Supply-Chain/Products/Handheld-PC/LXE/MX5/default.asp

However, we are still not quite sure of the architecture... ARM, ARMV4
or ARMV4I. Any directions would be most helpful.


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Silver
Tue May 23 12:16:49 CDT 2006

Check on Intel's site - they make the Intel PXA255 after all.

You see that the core is an ARMV5TE = ARM V4 + (V5) floating point (T)
Thumb and (E) DSP extensions.

From a CE viewpoint this means it implements the ARMV4 instruction set
and Thumb (interleaving is therefore possible). Use the ARMV4I target.

ftp://download.intel.com/design/intelxscale/27347302.pdf


Note CE 5.0 *only* supports ARMV4I - ARMV4 support is gone.

Geoff
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Gaurav Vaish (EduJini.IN) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are planning to design a couple of .Net CF 1.0 and 2.0 (C#) based
> applications for WinCE 4.2 and 5.0.
>
> Among various devices to be tested upon, we need to work with LXE MX5
> device running on Intel XScale PXA255 400MHz with Win CE 4.2.
>
> We have been able to get majority of information needed at
> http://www.infologixsys.com/products/Supply-Chain/Products/Handheld-PC/LXE/MX5/default.asp
>
> However, we are still not quite sure of the architecture... ARM, ARMV4
> or ARMV4I. Any directions would be most helpful.
>
>

Silver
Tue May 23 12:16:31 CDT 2006

Check on Intel's site - they make the Intel PXA255 after all.

You see that the core is an ARMV5TE = ARM V4 + (V5) floating point (T)
Thumb and (E) DSP extensions.

From a CE viewpoint this means it implements the ARMV4 instruction set
and Thumb (interleaving is therefore possible). Use the ARMV4I target.

ftp://download.intel.com/design/intelxscale/27347302.pdf


Note CE 5.0 *only* supports ARMV4I - ARMV4 support is gone.

Geoff
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Gaurav Vaish (EduJini.IN) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are planning to design a couple of .Net CF 1.0 and 2.0 (C#) based
> applications for WinCE 4.2 and 5.0.
>
> Among various devices to be tested upon, we need to work with LXE MX5
> device running on Intel XScale PXA255 400MHz with Win CE 4.2.
>
> We have been able to get majority of information needed at
> http://www.infologixsys.com/products/Supply-Chain/Products/Handheld-PC/LXE/MX5/default.asp
>
> However, we are still not quite sure of the architecture... ARM, ARMV4
> or ARMV4I. Any directions would be most helpful.
>
>

Gaurav
Tue May 23 13:16:51 CDT 2006

Hi Geoff

> You see that the core is an ARMV5TE = ARM V4 + (V5) floating point (T)
> Thumb and (E) DSP extensions.
>
> From a CE viewpoint this means it implements the ARMV4 instruction set and
> Thumb (interleaving is therefore possible). Use the ARMV4I target.
>
> ftp://download.intel.com/design/intelxscale/27347302.pdf
>

Thanks for the information and the precious document. :-)

Probably, we can spend some money on buying one LXE LM5 (I know it costs
an earth :D) for testing our applications.

> Note CE 5.0 *only* supports ARMV4I - ARMV4 support is gone.

And I guess CF 2.0 is not available below CE 5.0... right?
Don't recall but somewhere we ran into a bit of trouble getting CF 2.0
work on CE 4.2.

btw, any good Tablet PC 2005 based device? I recently got one PPC on Win
Mobile 5.0 -- O2 XDA Atom. All's ok except for huge lag in camera ;)


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Gaurav Vaish
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http://www.edujini.in
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Steve
Tue May 23 15:19:01 CDT 2006

>And I guess CF 2.0 is not available below CE 5.0... right?
> Don't recall but somewhere we ran into a bit of trouble getting CF 2.0
> work on CE 4.2.

CF 2.0 SP1 (in beta at the moment) supports 4.2


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kiranv
Tue May 23 22:19:56 CDT 2006

hi ,

I had a query related to this.

I had a PPC with Windows mobile 2003 SE.

It has Intel XScale PXA255 processor ( ARMV5TE).

I am using EVC++ 4.0 as development environment. I installed the PPC
2003 SDK .
When I create a new project in eVC++ the available configurations are
emulator and ARMV4.

Does ARMV4 is the configuration i should use to build applications for
my Pocket PC ???

can anyone help me what is ARMV4 / ARMV5TE / XScale PXA255 ???