WinDriver™
PCI for Linux automates and simplifies the development of user-mode
Linux device drivers with Kernel mode performance for PCI / PCI-Express / CardBus / PMC / PCI-X / PCIe / PCI-104 and CompactPCI.
No OS internals knowledge or kernel level programming required.
Reduce Time to Market
WinDriver provides a complete solution for creating high performance drivers, and enables you to focus on your driver's added-value functionality, instead of on the operating system internals.
Powerful Tools Included
- Hardware diagnostics
- Automatic driver code generation
- Driver debugging
- Hardware access - using our intuitive API (see WinDriver's Manual).
WinDriver provides a complete solution for creating high performance drivers
and custom hardware access applications.
Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- x86 32-bit, x86 64-bit (x86_64: AMD64 and Intel EM64T), or PowerPC (32-bit & 64-bit) architectures.
- Supported Linux kernel (including embedded Linux):
- For x86 32-bit architectures:
Linux kernel 2.2.x-2.6.x.
- For x86 64-bit and PowerPC 32-bit architectures: Linux kernel 2.4.x-2.6.x.
- For PowerPC 64-bit and IA64 architectures: Linux kernel 2.6.x.
- PCI / PCIe / CardBus / PMC / PCI-X / PCI-104 or CompactPCI.
- Any 32-bit or 64-bit development environment (depending on your target platform) supporting C.
Technical Reference
WinDriver products are accompanied with highly detailed technical references that are designed to assist you in various stages of the development process.
If you have just started evaluating or using WinDriver, you may find our Quick Start Guides helpful.
Should you require more in-depth information, or would like to know more about the technical aspects of WinDriver, please refer to our Online Manual.
For other technical information such as FAQs, technical documents or to contact our support team.
Specifications
- Driver footprint:
- x86 : 215KB
- x86_64 : 306KB
- PowerPC (32-bit) : 206KB
- PowerPC (64-bit) : 409KB
- IA64 (WinDriver v8.02) : 431KB
- Hard drive space:
- x86 : 39MB
- x86_64 : 39MB
- PPC (32-bit) : 38MB
- PPC (64-bit) : 39MB
- IA64 (WinDriver v8.02) : 34MB
- WinDriver can be customized to run with any Linux flavor.
- Supports Plug-and-Play and power management events handling.
- Supports I/O, DMA, interrupt handling and access to memory mapped cards.
- Supports multiple CPU.
- Includes dynamic driver loader.
- Check out the Installation Instructions page for latest instructions.
Benefits
- User Mode Development: No DDK, ETK, DDI or any system-level programming knowledge is required.
- Kernel Mode Perforamce: WinDriver's Kernel PlugIn technology to develop your driver in the user-mode - then run performance critical sections of it in the Kernel Mode (Ring 0) to achieve optimal performance.
- Cross OS Portability: Use the same source code for Windows 2000 / XP / XP Embedded / Server 2003 / Vista, Windows CE/Mobile, Linux, Solaris and VxWorks.
- High Quality: WinDriver's kernel has been field tested on thousands of hardware/software configurations.
- Time to Market: Shorten your development cycle and reduce time to market.
- Application code compatibility: Execute and maintain the same binary code for all Linux flavors and kernels 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x.
Features
- Friendly Wizard:
WinDriver provides hardware verification and diagnostics, automatic code generation and driver debugging, all through a graphical DriverWizard.
- Immediate Hardware Access:
Test your hardware through a graphical user mode application, without having to write a single line of code.
- Code Generation:
WinDriver automatically generates skeletal driver code specific to your hardware, for
MS Developer Studio / MSDEV .NET/ Borland Builder / MS Visual Basic / Delphi.
In addition to supporting any PCI peripheral, WinDriver includes enhanced support for leading PCI vendors, such as PLX, Xilinx and Altera.
This enhanced support includes vendor-specific driver samples, which can be used to further accelerate the driver development process.
- Driver Debugging:
Included graphical Debug Monitor to monitor kernel level activity throughout the driver development process.
- PCI Express Extended Support for Vista:
WinDriver enables you to utilize PCIe MSI and MSI-X now supported on Windows Vista. Read more on our PCI-Express page.
- Detailed examples in C.
- 64-Bit Hardware Support on 32-bit Systems:
Allows utilizing the additional bandwidth provided by 64-bit hardware and enables 64-bit data transfers on x86 platforms running 32-bit operating systems. Drivers developed with WinDriver will attain significantly better performance results than drivers written with the DDK or other driver development tools that do not support this feature.
- 64-Bit Architectures Support: WinDriver supports the 64-bit AMD64 and Intel EM64T CPU architectures (known as "x86_64") on Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels on Linux 2.6.x kernels.
What Else is Included?
- Comprehensive documentation and help files.
- Free technical support, according to Jungo's technical support plan.
- No run-time fees or royalties.
Purchasing
To order WinDriver PCI for Linux, visit
our Online Store.
If you prefer to purchase offline - download our Order Form,
fill it out, and either email it: sales@jungo.com,
or fax it: 1-877-514-0538 ( +972-9-885-9366).
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Testimonials
"...After I found and started working with Windriver software I was able to get my card running in only a few days !!! "
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Volker Schirra,
Siemens
"WinDriver is an excellent and time saving tool. Once having built an IDE driver for Windows NT we simply re compiled it under Linux!"
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Narcis Anghel,
Maxtor Corporation
Why WinDriver?
- Fast -
Shorten driver development cycle and time to market.
- Simple -
No OS internals or kernel knowledge required.
- Easy -
Develop your device driver in user mode using the intuitive & dynamic Wizard: watch our
PCI demo and
USB demo
- Powerful -
Achieve optimal performance while maintaining user-mode simplicity.
- Stable -
Field tested on thousands of HW / OS configurations.
- Portable -
The driver is source compatible across
2000/XP/XP Embedded/
Server 2003, Vista, Windows CE.NET/Mobile, Linux, Solaris and VxWorks.
Just recompile!
- Chipset Support -
PLX,
Altera,
Cypress,
Silicon Laboratories,
QuickLogic,
STMicroelectronics,
Texas Instruments and
Xilinx.
- WHQL Compliant -
WHQL certifiable code. See our WHQL page for more info.
- Up-to-date -
Develop your driver
in C# or VB.NET using the .NET framework support.
- Silicon-optimized
Enhanced silicon partners libraries to jump-start your
driver development.
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