Multiplatform driver development

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Apr 20, 2001

WinDriver and KernelDriver version 5.0 are the new generation of driver development tools from Jungo, offering hardware access and driver code generation capabilities through a rich API.

WinDriver and KernelDriver version 5.0 are the new generation of driver development tools from Jungo, offering hardware access and driver code generation capabilities through a rich API.

Until now, these were offered through a graphical user interface to Windows users only.

Jungo WinDriver/KernelDriver Version 5.0 includes a multiplatform Wizard, bringing a graphical driver development environment to Linux and Solaris driver developers as well.

Version 5.0 also incorporates a remote hardware access tool under a variety of operating systems.

Further enhancements and bug fixes have been made to improve the ease of development and the products' stability.

Jungo reckons WinDriver 5.0 is the only tool that provides the Unix world with a graphical user interface for hardware access, enabling hardware detection and debugging, as well as automatic driver code generation, using a rich API.

WinDriver v5.0 brings the successful DriverWizard to the Linux and Solaris communities, simplifying the process of hardware access and driver development, by allowing quick and simple diagnosis of hardware, using robust graphical tools, before writing a single line of code, and automating the driver code generation process.

Version 5.0 also includes Remote WinDriver.

This new feature enables developers to access hardware on any remote target machine, including embedded systems, from a host machine, via any network connection (LAN, WAN, dialup etc).

Developers can plug their hardware in on a remote target machine, running on one of the operating systems supported by WinDriver (currently Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/NT Embedded, Windows CE, Linux, Solaris, VxWorks and OS/2), and access it from their host development workstation at any location, under Windows NT/2000, Linux or Solaris.

Now it is possible to autodetect the hardware plugged into the remote target machine (including USB devices), test and diagnose it from the host machine and automatically generate the driver source code for the target device.

The library of APIs generated by the Wizard is specifically suited to the specific target hardware.

Remote WinDriver shortens the development cycle for embedded systems, allowing direct development on the embedded machine from the convenience of the host.

Remote WinDriver also eliminates the need to have development teams at different sites or send cards and devices between development stations, thus saving shipment costs and reducing time to market.

A free, full featured 30 day evaluation version of WinDriver and KernelDriver 5.0 is available for download from the Jungo website.