Target Designer Automation Interface

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Andrea De Nardis

Hi all,
does TA export any automation interface in order to make scripts that
can automate tasks? I really hope so, because I have to maintain several
different images that differs only in hardware components but not in
software modules, so I would prefer to update just one, then have the other
automatically updated by just inserting the correct hardware components.
Could anyone help me?
Best Regards,
Andrea
 
Andrea,

As long as your hardware is similar. (Same HAL/kernel) you can make one
image that support all hardware that you will ever use.
You just should use more geneneric components and add driver files manually
or trough custom component.

What are the exact differences between hardware that you use?
Video, Network, Audio, Motherboards?

You should treat TA, TAP as programs that only give you suggestions not as
programs that you should consider using in case that you have.

Following long thread speak about making and using universal components:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...6794b5ed5ff/37830897129cd1e3#37830897129cd1e3

Regards,
Slobodan
 
Hi Slobodan,
the difference lies in Video, Network and Motherboards. Actually your
proposal is very interesting, and I can really follow your hints.
But I would like to know if some kind of automated tasks are available. I
read about CMI and found its COM object, but I did not find neither any
documentation nor examples.
Could you please help me further investigating?
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Andrea
 
Andrea,

CMI has nice features that can be certainly used, but like you said it is
undocumented, and I have played very little with it. Konstantin probably has
better knowledge of CMI and he posted some info about it in this NG. (Use
google groups to find infos)
If you need only to support few different hardware components in your images
then PnP approach is better then loosing time with CMI for solely this
purpose.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
Andrea,

There is almost nothing I can add to Slobodan's reply. I'd also vote for PnP approach if you want to cover different hardware
scenarios.
CMI approach would be helpful to you if your image were much different on the software layer and you wanted to automate the build
process.

Regarding TA import automation. Look under "\Program Files\Windows Embedded\utilities\" for the econvert.ex-e tool. This would be
the simplest way to process many PMQ files.
 
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