Windows Embedded Product Design
With a proven track record of successful product developments using Windows Embedded operating systems, Plextek is the ideal choice for Windows Embedded product design and development. Microsoft Windows Embedded offers feature-rich and highly cost-effective operating systems for a wide range of products, such as PC based instruments, deeply embedded communications systems and highly connected mobile devices. Plextek’s Windows Embedded skills-set includes Windows Embedded XP and Windows Embedded CE on ARM, x86 and MIPS processors. It covers board support package development and porting, device driver development, OS configuration and application development for a range of off-the shelf and custom-designed hardware platforms.
Plextek’s unique capability is that it can offer all aspects and stages of product design, development and manufacturing. This includes requirement definition, industrial design, product/system design and development, manufacturing test system design and development, approvals testing, introduction into production and volume product manufacture.
Plextek has experience of designing Windows Embedded products and systems for a variety of customers and marketplaces such as volume consumer products, dedicated business devices, security and defence applications.
In the consumer and business marketplace portable embedded devices are becoming ever more sophisticated, but customers still expect low cost, high reliability, long battery life, ease of use, small size and low weight. Many of these same constraints also apply to non-portable devices such as set-top boxes. Plextek has a long history of successfully designing embedded devices to meet these requirements. The familiar environment offered by Windows Embedded comes to the fore in keeping development times and costs down and in delivering systems that feel familiar to users so that they can quickly and easily learn how to operate them.
In the Defence and Homeland Security sectors, there is a similar trend of more sophisticated remote computing platforms used in applications such as
- protection of borders and key facilities,
- video capture and communications,
- personal information and communications.
These devices must be highly reliable, mechanically robust and extremely secure whilst still supporting connected applications. In many cases they are designed for long periods of unattended operation without access to mains power, necessitating very low power consumption. Often such devices have no user interface at all, so they must be fully self-configuring without user intervention. Plextek has a proven track record in developing designs that meet these constraints whilst still offering the flexibility and power of Windows Embedded.
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