USB/PCI driver development seminars in Taiwan and India Join one of Jungo's one day seminars titled:
Device Firmware and Driver Development Tools for USB/PCI Devices.

Taiwan Seminar:

• Taipei - Monday, July 4th

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India Seminars:

• Bangalore - Wednesday, July 6th
• Chennai - Thursday, July 7th
• Delhi - Friday, July 8th
• Hyderabad - Monday, July 11th
• Pune - Tuesday, July 12th

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Customer Success Story: GE Healthcare Uses WinDriver PCI for Windows GE Healthcare France chooses Jungo's WinDriver to develop a Win2k driver for their Gitane PCI interface board.

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Jungo's New Reseller in Italy - ItalSoft S.r.l. Jungo Welcomes ItalSoft as its new reseller in Italy. Founded in 1996, Italsoft S.r.l. is a leading supplier of hardware & software integrated solutions for the embedded environment.

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WinDriver for PCI Express PCI Express (PCIe) is an I/O interconnect bus standard that provides larger bandwidth and greater scalability than the standard PCI 2.2 bus.

PCIe features a serial two-way connection, which transfers data using pairs of point-to-point data lanes. Each lane supports a maximum bandwidth of approximately 500MB/s, which allows for a maximum bandwidth of 500-8,000 MB/s, depending on the number of lanes. This provides a great improvement over the single parallel architecture of the traditional PCI bus, which supports a maximum bandwidth of 132MB/s. In addition, PCIe uses switches that can be used to control the data flow on the bus, thus allowing each device to use its full bandwidth capabilities.

The PCIe architecture was developed to provide suitable support for high-speed interconnects that require high transfer speeds, such as USB 2.0, InfiniBand, 1394b and Gigabit Ethernet. PCIe provides an ideal solution for the growing number of devices that require high bandwidth, such asHard drive controllers, video streaming devices and networking cards.

Beginning with version 7.00, WinDriver provides APIs for easily accessing the PCI Express extended configuration space. In addition, WinDriver fully supports the standard PCI features supported by PCIe, which is, by design, completely backward compatible with the traditional PCI bus. You can also use WinDriver's PCI API to easily communicate with PCI devices connected to the PC via PCI Express-to-PCI bridges and switches (e.g. the PLX 8111/8114 bridges or the PLX 8532 switch, respectively).

For information on the PCIe architecture, refer to PCI-SIG, the committee responsible for overseeing the PCI interface standard, at: http://www.pcisig.com/home, and specifically to the PCI-SIG PCIe Technical Library at:
http://www.pcisig.com/specifications/pciexpress/technical_library/ .

For information regarding WinDriver's support for PCI Express, refer to the following technical document: http://www.jungo.com/st/support/tech_docs/td126.html,
and to the WinDriver PCI User's Manual, available on-line from:
http://www.jungo.com/st/support.html.