USB software stacks run on ARM microcontrollers

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Aug 22, 2006

USBware embedded USB software stacks are now available for Atmel's Smart ARM microcontrollers.

Jungo's USBware embedded USB software stacks are now available for Atmel's Smart ARM microcontrollers.

Compliant with the USB specifications, Jungo's host and device stacks provide high quality, production ready, and fully featured implementations of the Universal Serial Bus standard protocols and device class drivers.

"USBWare provides a simple and ready-to-use USB stack solution for our ARM microcontrollers", commented Jean-Christophe Zettel, Manager of Atmel's ARM-based Microcontroller Application Group.

"The composite classes for the USB devices, the OHCI stacks for small RTOSs and the wide range of operating systems supported make USBware a very attractive solution for the majority of the system designers working with AT91 microcontrollers".

"Jungo is happy to enhance its existing partnership for Atmel with USBware, Jungo's complete and AT91-ready software implementation of the USB protocol", said Oren Manor, USBware Product Manager with Jungo's Software Tools Division.

"This collaboration provides embedded engineers with complete USB hardware and software solution, allowing our mutual customers to reach a design win quickly and bring their USB products to market without delays".

The AT91 ARM7- and ARM9-based microcontrollers include on-chip device and host USB functionality and come equipped with a wide range of third party software including BSPs for all leading RTOSs.

Jungo's USBware features an operating system independent implementation of the USB protocol, facilitating development with any operating system, including common RTOS such as eCos/eCosPRO, uCOS-II, OSE, ThreadX, Linux, Vxworks WinCE, XPe, Integrity, pSOS, MQX, Nucleus, embOS and proprietary 16/32bit operating systems.

The partnership offers a prevalidated and complete USB software implementation including low-level controller drivers for the AT91 host and device cores and standard class drivers, allowing developers to easily incorporate USB connectivity.