Jungo Releases WinDriver 8.11, Supporting PowerPC 64-bit & Agere's USS2828 USB Chip Earlier this month, Jungo announced a new release of WinDriver, its USB/PCI driver and firmware development toolkits, supporting Windows (2000/XP/Server2003/Vista), Windows CE, Linux and Solaris. WinDriver version 8.11 now supports PowerPC 64-bit architectures on Linux 2.6.x Kernels.

Following Jungo's partnering with Agere, WinDriver now offers enhanced support for Agere's USS2828 USB chip, including library APIs and a sample application for the device's default firmware.

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Jungo Releases Updated DFU Function Driver As part of its USBware (embedded USB software stack) product line, Jungo has released an updated version of the DFU ("Device Firmware Upgrade") Function Driver. Designed to reside on top of Jungo's USB Device Stacks, the DFU function driver includes support for the USB-IF Device Firmware Upgrade Class.

DFU defines and provides a generic mechanism for firmware upgrades, allowing device manufactures to offer an application supporting firmware upgrades from the PC to the embedded device. This functionality considerably increases the life of the product and ensures end users can easily upgrade the device's firmware.

The DFU protocol defines an upgrade session involving multiple states, which are used for synchronization between the host and the device to insure data integrity and a successful upgrade.

DFU fully supports composite devices, ensuring the end user can begin the upgrade session during standard connection. The session includes: rebooting of the embedded device, download of new firmware, and re-enumeration of the device with the updated firmware.

As a completing product Jungo offers a DFU Windows Class Driver developed using Jungo's WinDriver USB driver development kit. The DFU class driver allows quick implementation of a matching host DFU application meeting any custom requirements. The application includes all required low-level USB functionality and exposes a full set of user level APIs.

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USB CDC (Communication Device Class) Drivers for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista (32/64 bit) Favored by many USB devices' manufacturers worldwide, especially in the mobile communications industry, the CDC 1.1 provides several interfaces in which a communication device can expose itself to a host machine. These various interfaces include modems or native serial interfaces, Ethernet devices, telephones, wireless communication device, and more.

As part of its PC USB Communication Drivers product line, Jungo provides USB CDC Windows Drivers. The drivers allow communication between CDC compatible USB devices and Windows based platforms, while supporting all ACM, ECM, WMC, OBEX and EEM specifications.

Designed to substantially reduce development time and costs, the drivers are available as a turnkey solution, in object format or in source format - as a development tool, including intuitive C language APIs.

The USB CDC Windows Drivers are a complementary solution to Jungo's USBware product line, which provides the device-end CDC Function Drivers required for a complete CDC implementation.

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Jungo Announces New Product Line: USB Testing Tools With the adoption of USB as the standard connectivity bus, and with the complexity involved in implementing quality USB software, arises the need to test and verify USB functionality before going out to market.

Jungo's USB testing solutions enable testing of basic and complex USB connectivity scenarios and analyzing of USB traffic, thus assisting in reducing debug failures and saving work and time towards a successful USB implementation.

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Success Story: PLD Applications Uses WinDriver PCI Learn how PLD Applications, a world leader in PCI IP core development, uses Jungo's WinDriver PCI Software to create the software development kit provided with their products. PLDA chose to base their hardware access APIs on Jungo's reliable and efficient tool, thus avoiding a complicated and long software development project.

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