Serial Port Driver Catalog Items (Compact 2013)
3/26/2014
In Windows Embedded Compact, you can implement support for serial port drivers that are used for data transfer, such as sending debug messages through a serial connection to test your OS on the development board.
For more information, see Serial Port Drivers.
For more information about how to add or remove catalog items, see Create Your First OS.
Hardware and Software Requirements
- Requires a 16500 UART PCI serial card
Catalog Items and BSP Environment Variables
The following table describes the catalog items and associated BSP environment variables that you can use to add support for serial port drivers to your OS. You no longer have to set a SYSGEN to enable serial support. It is enabled by default.
Catalog item |
BSP environment variable |
Description |
Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|
Com16550 |
None |
Provides a serial port driver for the 16550 universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) (virtual COM1). |
None |
Com_Card |
None |
Adds support for both a native 16550 UART to the serial port driver. |
None |