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PC-based Controllers

Embedded Controllers

PAC

Motion Control

RS-485 I/O

Ethernet I/O

Building Automation

Self-service Terminals

eHome Platforms

Embedded OS Introduction

and Driver Support

Support Versatile Operation Systems

Advantech’s Embedded Automation Computers not only supports the popular Windows

operating system, but also provides embedded operating system solutions offering a

pre-conﬁgured image with optimized onboard device drivers. Advantech's Embedded

Automation Computers provides the following most popular embedded operating systems:

 Windows CE 5.0

 Windows CE 6.0 R2

 Windows XP Embedded

 Windows Embedded Standard (WES)

 Advantech Embedded Linux

These operating systems fulﬁll the toughest requirements of complete functionality, high

reliability, minimized cost and low power consumption. These Embedded Automation

Computers quickly prove themselves to be an application-ready platform that saves time

and energy in launching projects.

Real-Time Windows CE Meets Time-critical Demands

Windows CE, published by Microsoft, is a robust, compact and highly efﬁcient real-time

operating system that quickly satisﬁes any customized high-performance embedded

applications. It also provides enterprise-scale protection with demanding network security

mechanisms, including Kerberos Security Protocol, Extensible Authentication Protocol,

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and so on. Furthermore, Windows CE supports the latest

stack network standard, IPv6 that provides more IP addresses than the previous standard,

IPv4. Windows CE possesses robust core OS services and complete networking services

to offer users an ideal embedded development platform.

WinCE Powered by Wonderware Offers Flexible HMI

WinCE 6.0 R2 version for UNO-Series meets Wonderware’s HMI Software’s system

requirement. With the HMI software support, these computers can work as HMI or control

nodes. With the provided VESA mounting kit they can be integrated with panel monitors,

such as FPM series. With support for touchscreen controllers under WinCE, users can

operate the systems through touch. Without the monitor, they can also be a control node

for programmed control logic.

WES Provides Applications Compatible to Windows XP

Windows Embedded Standard (WES) is a new name of WinXPe which is a componentized

version of Windows XP Professional. It is based on Windows XP Professional binaries

and features the latest multimedia (Windows Media Player 11, DirectX 9.0c), browsing

(Internet Explorer 7.0) technologies, security, Remote Desktop Protocol 6.0 and File

Based Write Filter (EWF). You can seamlessly integrate speciﬁc applications into WES

with minimum effort.

Open Source Embedded Linux Offers a Cost-effective Alternative

Embedded Linux is a famous, UNIX compatible, open source embedded operating system

which ports the Linux kernel to a speciﬁc CPU and board installed into the embedded

device. Advantech offers Embedded Linux installation CD for UNO-Series products and

supports Fedora Core 8 and RedHat 9.0 kernels. In the Embedded Linux, it features

read-only ﬁle system, real-time kernel, on-line update, X Windows, browsing (Dillo),

PDF viewer (XPDF), FTP (GFTP), IPv6 and software management (RedHat Package

Manager) in 128MB image size.

Driver Packages Provided for QNX and Popular Linux Distributions

Customers can install QNX and standard Linux distributions on UNO-Series Embedded

Automation Computers and Advantech provides drivers for the following self-design

hardware or IO:

 Serial COM ports with Oxford UART

 CAN port

 Watchdog Timer

 Battery-backup SRAM

 Digital IO ports

Following distributions and versions listed are the environments which the related binary

drivers are available for quick installation:

 QNX 6.3.2, 6.4.1

 Debian 3.1r0, 4.0, 5.0

 Fedora Core 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

 Mandrake 10.1

 Mandriva 2006, 2008

 opensuse 10.3

 Redhat 9

 RHEL 4, 5

 SuSE 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.3

 Ubuntu 6.06, 8.04, 8.04.3

If your distribution is not on the list, please contact us for further assistance.

Standard Windows Support up to Windows 7

Advantech's Embedded Automation Computer provide necessary drivers on the

companion DVD for user to install popular Windows operating systems, such as Window

2000, Windows XP Pro, even the latest Windows 7. For the self-design hardware or IO,

Advantech provides the WDM (Windows Driver Model) drivers which is the standard

driver architecture of Windows. WDM drivers would work on the other new Windows

system as long as WDM is supported.

Software Drivers & Utilities

Advantech’s Embedded Automation Computers provide more value to automation users.

By accumulating year’s ﬁeld-experience and collecting customer’s feedback, we had

developed several convenient and high-efﬁcient driver/utility which would highly facilitate

user to manage the Embedded Automation Computers product.

DiagAnywhere for Cluster Management

User usually needs to manage a cluster of UNO-Series units on the ﬁeld site. Advantech

DiagAnywhere provides the following functions for user to manage them easily:

 Remote monitoring, control, shutdown and wakeup

 Screen capture and recording

 File transferring

Every UNO-Series’ Windows-based embedded system, such as WinCE, WES and WinXPe

comes bundled with DiagAnywhere. Users only need one client-end utility installed on the

PC or laptop then they can do the remote monitor and diagnosis easily.

Battery-Backup SRAM, Useful Buffer for Controller Application

In some controlling applications, users need quick and reliable buffers for data transferring.

UNO-Series products provide the SRAM which is backed-up by the onboard battery.

With the driver support, users can use SRAM easily just like a local drive. It can also be

used as a quick buffer, not only with high read/write efﬁciency, but it also can reduce the

accessing frequency of CompactFlash.

EWF/FBWF Utility Protects the System

In the provided WES and WinXPe image of UNO-Series, we provide a friendly utility which

has clear interface to guide the user active/inactive the EWF (Enhanced Write Filter) and

FBWF (File-Based Write Filter) functions step by step. EWF and FBWF are the features

provided by Microsoft. They are used to protect the WES or WinXPe from damage.

While these functions are active, the speciﬁed drive or folder would never been written,

and everything would back to the original conﬁguration after reboot. Empowered by the

provided utility, user can utilizes the EWF/FBWF easily.

System Utilities for Status-Monitoring and Availability

User in industrial ﬁeld usually has the requirement to monitor the system status. UNO-

Series provides the LMsensor driver/utility for user to monitor the system parameters,

such like the Temperature of CPU/Board and Voltage of system power source. Also,

we provide the WDT (Watchdog Timer) driver/utility to increase the availability of the

system. WDT would reset the system or send alarm while the system is stuck on some

accident event. For both function, LMsensor and WDT, we also provide the APIs for user

to integrate into his application.

Enhanced COM Port Driver Meets the Industrial Requirements

In the WinCE of UNO-Series, we developed enhanced COM port driver which has times

efﬁciency than standard driver. It can not only increase the communication efﬁciency but

also reduce the CPU loading. Another, the WDM driver of COM port with Oxford UART

would support the function of any-baud-rate. Which means it can support any baud

rate user want for some speciﬁc application and keep user from the trouble of data loss

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