Barry Bond: Emulation, Emulation, Emulation (Channel 9)

Barry Bond: Emulation, Emulation, Emulation

Posted: Aug 10, 2006 at 9:06 AM

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Barry Bond is an Architect who lives and breathes software emulation of hardware. What is emulation? How does it work? How do you inhale it? Well, watch, listen and learn. We dig into this important development technology with the de facto emulation guru here at Microsoft. One of the great things about the emulation technology Barry has created is that it's source code is available as shared source. Developers, get your hands dirty.

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ali_raza_shaikh

Aug 10, 2006 at 10:03 AM

source code is available as shared source? Where? any link
dahat inanity makes my head hurt

Aug 10, 2006 at 10:42 AM

ali_raza_shaikh wrote:

source code is available as shared source? Where? any link

DL Link: Shared Source Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Release

Also mentioned on his blog.
ali_raza_shaikh

Aug 10, 2006 at 12:09 PM

Thanks for the link
nishantkumar Wolverine's Rage

Aug 11, 2006 at 1:00 AM

Thats one great video!
Is there any dedicated forum for technical questions on the MDE?
samirsshah

Aug 12, 2006 at 4:49 AM

Great Video!

Do you emulate phone features? What do you do about SMS, MMS, Camera, Video Camera and Media Playing?
DigitalDud

Aug 12, 2006 at 5:59 PM

Great video, emulators are a personal interest of mine. It's nice to see the source for working JIT compiler since there's not too much information on the subject.
BarryBo

Aug 28, 2006 at 2:09 PM

Thanks for watching!

The Device Emulator General forum at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=76&rw=true&SiteID=1 is the place to go for discussion about the Shared Source DeviceEmulator, as well as for the binary releases.

Barry
BarryBo

Aug 28, 2006 at 2:13 PM

>> Do you emulate phone features? What do you do about SMS, MMS, Camera, Video Camera and Media Playing?

The DeviceEmulator emulates at a lower-level, at the "chips and registers" level. We have limited support for SMS and MMS using the Fake Radio Interface Layer (FakeRIL) code supplied by the Windows Mobile team, which is included in the phone-enabled ROMs.

Media playback works great inside the DeviceEmulator - audio and video both play.

The DeviceEmulator doesn't currently emulate still or video cameras. However, ROM images based on Windows Mobile 5.0 AKU2 and newer should include a NULL camera driver that always reports whiteness. In the future, I'd love to be able to bind a virtual camera to the desktop media stack, taking input from canned video on disk or from a live webcam.

Barry