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Introduction: David Liao

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My name is David Liao. I have been working for Microsoft for about 9 years. My working range is from Device Drivers to BSPs. I have done a lot of Windows CE drivers and BSPs for Microsoft. For example, User Mode Driver Framework, SD Bus driver re-design, USB 2.0 EHCI stack, PC Card stack, Windows CE Bus Driver Architect are among them. For the BSP, I had designed USB Function Controller driver, USB OTG, PCI and others.

 

Before I joined Microsoft, I worked for Xerox, Teklogix and other Company as a DSP Software Developer. I wrote several Digital Filters, Pattern Recognition and Networking Stack software for Company.

 

I have been in the software industry for 20 years. One thing I have learned from my experience: if there is bug, it will be hit sooner or later.

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  • Anonymous
    April 19, 2007
    Welcome to the blog, David!  Great first post.  :-)Sue
  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2007
    Is the EHCI Driver available in source in Platform Builder ?
  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2007
    How is USB OTG supported in WinCE? What controllers are currently supported?
  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    May 02, 2007
    What USB classes(Function Client Drivers) are supported by CE Function Stack ?  We are looking for CDC-ACM and CDC-WHCM support in the Function Stack. Is it supported?
  • Anonymous
    May 02, 2007
    What are the certification requirements for Windows CE USB Stack ? Do OEMs need to apply to usb.org for Windows CE USB Software certification ? or is it pre-certified ?
  • Anonymous
    May 02, 2007
    What USB classes(Function Client Drivers) are supported by CE Function Stack ?  We are looking for CDC-ACM and CDC-WHCM support in the Function Stack. Is it supported?No, there is no USB function client driver support fors CDC-ACM directly. But, we have USB Function Serial driver which can support USB Modem (recogonized by XP and load USBSer.sys). This driver is very close to CDC-ACM and you can use it as example.Current, we don't have CDC-WHCM support.
  • Anonymous
    May 02, 2007
    Does CE Function Stack support DFU (Device Firmware upgrade) ?
  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2007
    How to write a IDE device driver in WinCE5.0? I have written the FMD based driver for nand/nor which is FMD based. The FAT calls the FAL which calls the FMD layer and FMD layer writes to the nand/nor. The ide seems to be a Block device driver but how this driver works I am not able to understand. There are alot of references but dont know which one to use ..PUBLICCOMMONOAKDRIVERSBLOCK has ATADISK and ATAPI. The ATAPI contains numerous files for diffrent ATA devices. Can you let me know from where to start and which one to refer
  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2007
    Hi,David   I have seen you talk about usbser.sys on Pc, is it a virtual com port,and can I use it just like a real com port(can i just use the App that operate real com port to operate it?);I using wince5.0 ,and at WINCE500PUBLICCOMMONOAKDRIVERSUSBFNCLASS,there is 3 class driver,but seem as that they all not ok to link usbser.sys on pc, which one should i use?thanks?
  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2007
    Hi PaulpanThis is Viral. I work in the same team as David and primarily work on USB.To talk to the device using the virtual com port, you can use usbser.sys driver on the desktop. The corresponding class driver on the device is serial which is located under WINCE500PUBLICCOMMONOAKDRIVERSUSBFNCLASSSERIAL.To use the serial class driver with usbser.sys, you will have to use the USBSER_CLASS profile in the registry instead of the SERIAL_CLASS as the default cient driver under HKLM/DRIVERS/USB/HKLM/DRIVERS/USB "DefaultClientDriver"="USBSER_CLASS"
  • Anonymous
    May 24, 2007
    Hi david,I faced one problem. I am using VIA board ....when i load run time image platform-wince6.0 and trying to connect EHCI device it got hanged.....wat may be the possible cause????????
  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2007
    I may never know how many USB Function Class Drivers are supported today because a lot of external Windows CE developer are working on Class Drivers. I only can tell you what Microsoft have released.Mass Storage.USB Serial Modem Driver (Close to CDC ACM specificiation but it has differences).USB Activesync Driver.Microsoft RNDIS Client Driver.Printer Transport Function Class DriverComposite Function Driver.
  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2007
    Hi David,   good day!   I am try to develop usb host audio driver under wince5,and i want to know what interface should i expose to os? thus,the os can transmit data to usb when it play audio. if i only expose a stream interface, how the os know to transmit data to usb?paulpan
  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2007
    hi, David,Glad to meet you here.I meet with a problem here,with a driver. using PCI master DMA, while i have finished the writing the device register(memry type) ,all the dma base and length, is correct, and the data is ready, but DMA doesn't work, whether the PCIbus should config what?, i had check the PCI config COMMAND register,the master is enable, do you know what is the problem?does something wrong with PCI initalization?in windows ce flatform config?thanks,shaoning