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News Release from: Jungo | Subject: WinDriver and KernelDriver
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 31 July 2002
Driver development tools handle 64bit
datarates
Driver development tools from Jungo Software Technologies now support 64bit PCI data transfers on x86 platforms running 32bit operating systems.
Driver development tools from Jungo Software Technologies now support 64bit PCI data transfers on x86 platforms running 32bit operating systems This innovative technology enables achieving data transfer rates previously unattainable on such platforms
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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While 64bit hardware permeates the market, 32bit operating systems still dominate, preventing realisation of the benefits of 64bit hardware, an example being significant improvement of data transfer rates.
Platforms running 32bit operating systems on x86 CPUs support only 32bit data transfer.
However, Jungo's driver development tools, WinDriver and KernelDriver, allow tapping into the superior bandwidth of 64bit hardware to enable 64bit data transfer.
WinDriver and KernelDriver simplify the development of device drivers for USB, PCI, CompactPCI, ISA, ISAPnP and EISA custom hardware under Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, Windows CE, Linux, Solaris and VxWorks.
The tools feature graphical development environments, APIs, diagnostic and debug utilities and samples, and eliminate the need for both kernel and DDK knowledge.
Drivers developed using WinDriver and KernelDriver will attain significantly better performance results than drivers written with the DDK or other driver development tools.
To date such tools do not enable 64bit data transfer under x86 platforms running 32bit operating systems.
Jungo's benchmark performance testing results for 64bit data transfer indicate a significant improvement of data transfer rates compared to 32bit data transfer, guaranteeing that drivers developed with WinDriver and KernelDriver achieve far better performance than 32bit data transfer normally allows.
"Jungo continues to exploit new techniques for achieving greater levels of efficiency that will enable its customers to take advantage of new industry standards", said Roy Tannenbaum, Product Marketing Manager at Jungo.
"Driver development tools that support 64bit data transfer will be adopted by hardware vendors who wish to penetrate new markets and increase their overall market share".
WinDriver and KernelDriver version 5.2 will include 64bit data transfer support.
A beta release will be available from 4th August on Jungo's website.
Support for Intel Itanium 64bit platform and Microsoft 64bit operating systems is planned for future WinDriver and KernelDriver versions.
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