WinDriver USB for Linux
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WinDriver USB for Linux automates
and simplifies the development of user mode Linux device drivers
and hardware control applications for USB peripheral devices.
No Linux kernel knowledge or kernel level programming required.
For PCI support see WinDriver
Linux. Including
powerful tools for hardware diagnostics, automatic driver code
generation, and driver debugging, as well as intuitive hardware
access API, WinDriver provides a complete solution for creating
high performance drivers and custom hardware access applications,
thereby enabling you to focus on your driver's added-value
functionality, instead of on your operating system internals.
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WinDriver™ USB for Linux automates and simplifies the development of user-mode Linux device drivers and hardware control applications for USB peripheral devices. No Linux kernel knowledge or kernel level programming required.
Including powerful tools for:
- Hardware diagnostics
- Automatic driver code generation
- Driver debugging
- Hardware access - using our intuitive API
WinDriver provides a complete solution for creating high performance drivers and custom hardware access applications.
WinDriver enables you to focus on your driver's added-value functionality, instead of on the operating system internals.
System Requirements
- x86 32-bit, x86 64-bit (x86_64: AMD64 and Intel EM64T), IA64 (Intel Itanium and Itanium 2), or PowerPC (32-bit & 64-bit) architectures.
- Supported Linux kernel (including embedded Linux):
- For x86 (32-bit & 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.
- USB 2.0 or USB 1.1.
- UHCI, OHCI, or EHCI host controllers.
- Any 32-bit or 64-bit development environment (depending on your target platform) supporting C.
- Hard drive space:
- x86 : 35MB
- x86_64 : 20MB
- PPC (32-bit) : 35MB
- PPC (64-bit) : 36MB
- IA64 (WinDriver v8.02) : 34MB
Technical Notes
- Driver footprint:
- x86 : 210KB
- x86_64 : 334KB
- PowerPC (32-bit) : 201KB
- PowerPC (64-bit) : 399KB
- IA64 (WinDriver v8.02) : 431KB
- Supports Plug-and-Play and power management events handling.
- Supports Control, Bulk, Interrupt and Isochronous data transfer.
- Supports multiple interface devices.
- Supports multiple CPU and multiple PCI bus platforms.
- 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.
- Cross OS Portability: Use the same source code for Windows 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP / XP Embedded / Server 2003 / Vista, Windows CE.NET and Linux.
- 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 2.4.x and 2.6.x.
Features
- Friendly Wizard:
DriverWizard provides hardware verification and diagnostics, automatic code generation and driver debugging, all through a graphical interface.
- Immediate Hardware Access:
Test your hardware through a graphical user mode application, without having to write a line of code.
- Code Generation:
DriverWizard automatically generates skeletal driver code specific to your hardware, for
Visual Studio / MSDEV .NET / Visual Basic / Delphi / GCC.
- Vendor Specific Support:
In addition to supporting any USB peripheral, WinDriver includes enhanced support for leading USB vendors, such as Cypress, Philips, Microchip, National Semiconductor and Atmel.
This enhanced support includes vendor-specific driver samples, which can be used to further accelerate the driver development process.
- Driver Debugging:
The included Debug Monitor logs debug information for your driver in real time.
- 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, and the Intel Itanium and Itanium 2 architectures (known as "IA64") on Linux 2.6.x kernels.
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