How to Use Platform Builder to Connect to Multiple Target Devices (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)
1/5/2010
From a single development workstation, you can connect to multiple Windows Embedded CE–based devices. For each simultaneous connection to a target device, you must open a separate instance of Platform Builder on your development workstation. You must also create a separate named connection for each target device.
Connecting to multiple devices can improve the efficiency of the development process. Through multiple connections, you can manage several target devices simultaneously from the same development workstation. You can create connections to multiple target devices that all run identical run-time images. The target devices can also all run different run-time images.
Steps
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1. Decide which target devices you want to use. You can use a target device if the run-time image for the target device includes kernel independent transport layer (KITL) support. |
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2. Verify that the run-time image for each target device includes the appropriate board support package (BSP) for the hardware of the target device. |
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3. If you have not already built a run-time image for each target device that you want to use, build an OS design into run-time image for each target device that lacks one. |
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4. In the Output window, on the Output tab, verify that the build contains no errors. |
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5. Choose a download service appropriate for the connection hardware. The download service will download a run-time image to each target device. |
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6. Set up and configure the connection hardware required for the download service. That hardware connects each target device to the development workstation, on which Platform Builder is installed. Examples of connection hardware include cables, a hub, or Ethernet network adapters. |
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7. If you selected Serial Download Service in step 5, configure the HyperTerminal terminal emulation application to display the serial debug output from the serial port on the target device. This configuration requires a null-modem cable connected to a serial port, such as COM1. |
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8. Turn on each target device so that it becomes active on the Ethernet network or over the serial connection, and Platform Builder can discover it. |
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9. In Platform Builder, create a named connection for each target device. |
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10. Configure each named connection. Choose the appropriate topic based on whether the development workstation and each target device are connected by an Ethernet network or a serial port connection. |
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11. Choose the named connection that corresponds to the first target device, and then connect your development workstation to the first target device. |
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12. Start another instance of Platform Builder on your development workstation. |
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13. In the instance of Platform Builder you just started, choose the named connection that corresponds to the next target device, and then connect your development workstation to the next target device. |
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14. Repeat steps 9 and 10 for each additional target device you want to connect to your development workstation. |
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