How to Add Power Management to an OS Design (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

1/6/2010

You can add support for power management to an OS image to reduce power consumption on a target device and preserve the file system in RAM during the reset, on, idle and suspend power states. By adding power management to your OS design, you can also improve overall OS power efficiency and enable the OS to coexist with applications and drivers that do not support power management.

You can track your progress in the following table.

Step Topic

1. Create an OS design for a specific board support package (BSP).

Creating an OS Design with the Windows Embedded CE OS Design Wizard

2. Add the Power Management (Full) or Power Management (Minimal) catalog item to your OS design from the Platform Builder catalog.

The Power Management (Minimal) catalog item implements all the required power management application programming interfaces (APIs). These APIs are not fully functional.

The Power Management (Full) catalog item fully implements the entire power management framework. All APIs and features are fully functional.

For more information on power management, see Core OS Services.

Adding an Item from the Catalog

4. Build your run-time image.

If your run-time image builds correctly with no errors, you have successfully added power management to your run-time image.

Building a Run-Time Image

See Also

Concepts

Kernel Power Management

Other Resources

How to Add Power Management to a Device Driver
Power Management
Device Power States