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Design and Development Software
News Release from: Jungo
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 October 2005
Driver kit joins USB microcontroller
boards
Jungo's WinDriver driver and firmware development toolkit is now bundled with Microchip's PIC18F4550 development boards.
Jungo Software Technologies and Microchip Technology have collaborated to include Jungo's WinDriver driver and firmware development toolkit with Microchip's PIC18F4550 development boards, including the PICDEM FS-USB board The PIC18F4550 Flash PIC microcontrollers feature Full-Speed USB 2.0 connectivity and 48MHz operation, for 12Mbit/s data-transfer rates
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Jungo's WinDriver software provides an excellent addition to Microchip's existing USB development kits at no extra cost to our customers", said Kobus Marneweck, Marketing Manager for Microchip's Advanced Microcontroller Architecture Division.
"This collaboration with one of the world's leading suppliers of USB development tools will help speed our customers' time to market".
"By collaborating with Microchip, the leading provider of 8bit microcontrollers, Jungo further reinforces its leadership position as a complete USB software vendor".
"This joint effort between two USB hardware and software market leaders provides engineers with a complete, end-to-end development environment for their next embedded USB design", said Omry Ben David, Marketing Manager for Jungo's Software Tools Division.
"Using WinDriver and the technical software support that accompanies it, Microchip customers will gain a competitive edge by achieving successful design-wins while shortening time to market and reducing development costs".
Microchip now includes a 30-day full-featured evaluation version of WinDriver together with its PIC18F4550 development boards, including the PICDEM FS-USB board.
The software includes specific libraries and samples, and free technical support during the evaluation period to further facilitate Microchip-based USB device driver and firmware development projects.
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