"Microsoft Windows XP Embedded is a good platform to consider in designing a dedicated application from the point of view of features, footprint management, and the wealth of support and applications available. However, when an application requires real-time performance from a hardware interface, a real-time extension is required, along with some partition of the platform and the application. Time-critical threads must be executed under a real-time kernel, and interrupt resources must be dedicated to the hardware under that scheduler . . . "

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