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.
Powerful Tools Included
- Hardware diagnostics
- Automatic driver code generation
- Driver debugging
- Hardware access - using our intuitive API (see WinDriver's Manual).
WinDriver provides a complete solution for creating high performance drivers and custom hardware access applications.
Reduce Time to Market
WinDriver provides a complete solution for creating high performance drivers, and enables you to focus on your driver's added-value functionality, instead of on the operating system internals.
Technical Reference
WinDriver products are accompanied with highly detailed technical references that are designed to assist you in various stages of the development process.
If you have just started evaluating or using WinDriver, you may find our Quick Start Guides helpful.
Should you require more in-depth information, or would like to know more about the technical aspects of WinDriver, please refer to our Online Manual.
For other technical resources, such as FAQs and technical documents - see WinDriver's Support Page.
Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- x86 32-bit, x86 64-bit (x86_64: AMD64 and Intel EM64T), 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
Specifications
- Driver footprint:
- x86 : 222KB
- x86_64 : 315KB
- PowerPC (32-bit) : 213KB
- PowerPC (64-bit) : 420KB
- IA64 (WinDriver v8.02) : 431KB
- Hard drive space:
- x86 : 36MB
- x86_64 : 35MB
- PPC (32-bit) : 35MB
- PPC (64-bit) : 36MB
- IA64 (WinDriver v8.02) : 39MB
- 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
Features
- Friendly Wizard:
WinDriver provides hardware verification and diagnostics, automatic code generation and driver debugging, all through a graphical DriverWizard.
- Immediate Hardware Access:
Test your hardware through a graphical user mode application, without having to write a single line of code.
- Code Generation:
WinDriver automatically generates skeletal driver code specific to your hardware, for
MS Developer Studio / MSDEV .NET/ Borland Builder / MS Visual Basic / Delphi.
- 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:
Included graphical Debug Monitor to monitor kernel level activity throughout the driver development process.
- PCI Express Extended Support for Vista:
WinDriver enables you to utilize PCIe MSI and MSI-X now supported on Windows Vista. Read more on our PCI-Express page.
- Detailed examples in C.
- 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.