User`s manual

DIGITAL-LOGIC AG MPC40/A/B/C, MPC41 Manual V1.4C

5 OPERATING SYSTEMS COMPATIBILITY

The CPU PENTIUM is fully compatible to other PC-standard CPUs. The Intel chipsets are also fully PC-

compatible. No incompatibilities are known.

5.1 Microsoft Windows

This system is fully compatible with Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional / Home and XPe.

We do not recomment to install older Windows OS as Windows 95/98/ME/NT4 because of the incomplete

driver support from Intel.

5.2 Microsoft Windows CE 4.2 / 5.0 /6.0

Since we are in cooperation with Pfaadtsoft we recommend to use the WINCE 4.2/5.0 Board Support Pack-

age (BSP) which are developed especially for this product.

http://www.pfaadtsoft.de/

There are also DEMO Windows CE 4.2 / 5.0 images available for free:

http://dlag.pfaadtsoft.de/

5.3 LINUX

Since we are in cooperation with SYSCO we recommend to use the ElinOS Linux distribution.

http://www.elinos.com/

SYSCO developed a board support package (BSP) for the Pentium M and the Pentium BX/TX chipset based

products for ELinOS.

If you are interested or if you have any questions about ElinOS, please get in contact with SYSCO.

5.3.1 What is ELinOS?

ELinOS is a development environment based on Linux for the creation of embedded systems for intelligent

devices. With ELinOS the memory demand of Linux is reduced to less than 1 MB ROM and 2 MB RAM. In

this manner, Linux can for the first time conform to the reduced hardware conditions of embedded systems.

Even in this basic configuration, Linux offers largely the same functionality which made it so popular in the

server and desktop field. By virtue of access to the constantly growing number of Linux components, the ba-

sic system can be at any time expanded.

The core of ELinOS is a Linux distribution custom-tailored to the embedded systems currently sold. Besides

the well-known Linux version for x86,

ELinOS v2.2 also supports PowerPC-, ARM-, MIPS-, and SH3-platforms which are very popular in the em-

bedded field.

5.3.2 ELinOS

The emphasis of ELinOS is on the new CoTools, CODEO and COGNITO. CODEO is Eclipse based and pro-

vides additional Plug-ins for project management and target communication, which substantially improves

the ease of development of applications with ELinOS. COGNITO is a further integrated tool for the analysis

of system performance. It permits the collection, recording and display of all system information and facili-

tates the fast optimization of software for intelligent devices.

ELinOS has been updated to the new version of the GNU tool chain, contains the stable 2.4.25 Linux Kernel

and has integration of Java and the real time extensions RTAI 3.0 for hard real time requirements. The pack-

age is complemented with Carrier Grade Extensions such as IPv6, IPSec, SNMP etc. for the use of Linux in

applications in the telecommunications market.