e-con System announce Windows CE 6.0 R2 support for PXA270 reference platfrom SIRIUS

Sept. 25, 2008 - PRLog -- St. Louis, USA/Chennai, India

e-con Systems Inc., a leading Embedded Design Services company based out of St Louis, USA & Chennai, India announced e-con announces support of Windows CE 6.0 R2 on its PXA270 reference design - Sirius.

The Sirius reference design is e-con’s flagship product which is based on PXA270 processor and can be used as a development kit for multiple purposes incl. Customized Product design, establishing POC (proof of concept), R&D, Application development etc.

Sirius can be made to use the new windows CE 6.0 R2 that contains new features such as support for remote desktop 6.0, support for SDHC, dynamically loadable font engines and the new componentized flash driver. The support for SDHC 2.0 which not only will result in support for high capacity cards but also will result in higher speeds.
Commenting on  features of CE 6.0 R2, Ashok Babu, President, e-con Systems said “One of the features of R2 which would be of considerable interest to our customers is the ability to support both true type and raster fonts and the ability to load our own fonts and write the control engine for the same”.
e-con Systems, has earlier also announced availability of multiple add-on-modules like Printer, GPS, GPRS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth etc. with SIRIUS having support for Windows CE 5.0/6.0

About SIRIUS:

Sirius is a Reference Platform designed to cater various requirements such as navigation, audio and multimedia rich consumer electronics, industrial handheld devices for data logging, handheld cash transaction terminals, Video conferencing terminals, Video streaming nodes, Portable media players, surveillance terminals and information kiosks etc. This board is designed around Marvell (formerly Intel) Xscale PXA270 processor running at 520MHz and is powered by Linux and Windows CE.

SIRIUS also supports a lot of Add-on-Modules , which helps customers in faster product design. More detailes can be found on www.e-consystems.com/sirius.asp

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e-con Systems, acknowledged by Microsoft as Windows Embedded Silver Partner offers services like Hardware Design, Firmware design and Embedded Software development, Board Design, Linux, WinCE/Windows Mobile and VxWorks - Board Support Packages