Gitane - PCI Board for Manufacturing Test Bench

GE Healthcare France develops the "Gitane" - an interface board, based on Altera's FGPA, containing customized I/O and communication resources and software modules that were developed with Microsoft's Visual C++ 6.0.

Gitane PCI Board	Gitane Test Software click to enlarge

"We were looking for a driver to allow access to the board's resources for a Windows 2000-based software. Having no intention to develop the driver in-house, we then searched the web and found Jungo's solution." Said Yann Casteignau, Principal Engineer, Digital Hardware Design at GE Healthcare. "After downloading the 30 days evaluation version, we soon realized this was the perfect solution for our project. Using WinDriver we easily accessed our board's basic registers (8, 16, 32 bits single accesses). The ease of use and the fact that no former driver skills were needed, was our main incentives to license WinDriver and use it for the successful delivery of our project."


Architecture diagram

GE Healthcare ships Gitane to medical devices manufacturers, who use the Windows 2000 application with the WinDriver APIs to communicate with the device for extensive quality tests of the board functionally under production. Jungo's WinDriver PCI for windows simplified GE Healthcare's whole process of writing the driver and communicating with their hardware while maintaining user-mode simplicity. Using WinDriver, they brought their product to market quicker, leaving driver development efforts behind.

About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare's expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, disease research, drug discovery and biopharmaceuticals is dedicated to detecting disease earlier and tailoring treatment for individual patients. GE Healthcare offers a broad range of services to improve productivity in healthcare and enable healthcare providers to better diagnose, treat and manage patients with conditions such as cancer, Alzheimer's and cardiovascular diseases. GE Healthcare is a $14 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) that is headquartered in the United Kingdom. Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 42,500 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.

Company Contact Details:
GE Healthcare France
283 Rue de la Minière, B.P.34 * 78533 BUC Cedex, France
Website: http://www.gehealthcare.com

About WinDriver
Jungo's WinDriver™ automates and simplifies the development of user-mode device drivers and applications for USB / PCI / PCI Express / CardBus / ISA / PCMCIA / PMC / PCI-X / PCI-104 and CompactPCI under Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/XP Embedded/ Server 2003, Windows CE, Linux, Solaris and VxWorks. WinDriver provides a complete solution for creating high performance drivers and custom hardware access applications, thereby enabling developers to focus on their driver's added-value functionality, instead of on operating system internals and the DDK. Enhanced Built-in support is available for Actel, Altera, Atmel, CATC, Cypress, National Semiconductor, PLDA, PLX, Netchip, QuickLogic, Silicon Laboratories, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Xilinx.

About Jungo
Jungo Software Technologies is a leading supplier of driver development tools, hardware access applications, embedded USB solutions and residential gateway software. Jungo has partnered with leading operating system and silicon vendors to provide the best solutions to software and hardware developers. Jungo is a privately held company with corporate offices in San Jose, California, sales and support offices in Taipei, Texas and London and an R&D center in Israel. Founded in 1998, Jungo's investors include Conexant Systems, Infineon Ventures, Intel Communications Fund, Partech International and TeleSoft Partners.