The complexity of as porting projects requires excellent knowledge and skills and there is.il shortage of good engineering resources in this area. Engineering students can make extra effort to focus on Operating Systems and Computer Architecture coubes to enter into the field of as Porting. The resources to learn and practice as porting for Linux and Windows CE are easily available, free of cost or at a nominal cost.

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Linux, being open source, is easily available for many popular HW platforms with extensive documentation on kernel porting and device driver architecture.Microsoft Windows CE documentation is available online on the MSDN website and the tools for developing Windows CE BSP, device driver and applications are available for download for free (180 days licence). The tools include Visual Studio 2005 with Platform Builder Plug-in. This comes with a device emulator, which allows prototyping on a PC environment.