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New USB Driver Development Toolkit for Windows


Jungo (Formerly KRFTech) enables USB hardware vendors to offer their USB hardware on Windows NT/NTE/CE, thus providing a complete solution for the development of USB drivers on all Microsoft operating systems.

April 17th, 2000 (KRFTech, Israel): Jungo Ltd.(Formerly KRFTech) announced today the release of the WinDriver USB device drivers development toolkit for Windows CE, and the upcoming launch of WinDriver USB for Windows NT and NT Embedded. WinDriver dramatically shortens the development cycle of device drivers for USB to only several hours. By adding the support for USB on Windows NT, NTE and CE (to WinDriver's existing Windows 9x and 2000), Jungo (Formerly KRFTech) powerful "WinDriver" product line will now completely support all of the Microsoft operating systems.

Universal serial bus devices are becoming extremely popular in the consumer market, due to their small form factor, plug-and-play capabilities, and the ability to connect a large number of devices to a USB port. However, USB devices have not been used in environments where Windows NT is the platform of choice, because that operating system has not provided USB support. This will now change. Jungo (Formerly KRFTech) "WinDriver USB for Windows NT" enables USB capabilities on Windows NT and NT Embedded. Vendors can now distribute their products to millions of customers using the Windows NT operating system, thus opening new markets and opportunities for hardware vendors, and for the Windows NT operating system.

WinDriver USB saves USB developers the need to learn the operating system kernel and provides a set of stable, efficient, robust and easy to understand API to access the USB device.
"WinDriver now fully addresses the USB driver developer's needs for a quick and easy development and provides them the stability and robustness they need for their drivers" said Ofer Vilenski, president of Jungo Ltd.(Formerly KRFTech).

WinDriver USB includes the DriverWizard, which enables the developer to detect and diagnose the USB hardware by using graphical tools and to ensure the hardware functions as expected before starting the driver code development. The DriverWizard also automatically generates the driver code for the developers, with a library which is specifically suited to the specific hardware.

The support for USB devices on Windows NT/NTE/CE completes the WinDriver USB support for other Windows platforms. The same USB driver code generated for any of the Microsoft operating systems will run as-is on all of them. Porting the code to other Windows operating system is easy - just recompile and run! . The cross platform capability provides the USB vendor access to the whole Windows market with one code base.

Another powerful feature of WinDriver is the ability to develop the driver on an NT machine and then use the CE emulator to run and debug the driver. Thus, coding and debugging on the same machine.

Availability:
A free full-featured evaluation version of WinDriver USB for Windows CE can be downloaded from our site at www.jungo.com/st/download.html.
Windows NT/NTE evaluation version will be available for download from May 2000.
To join the Beta program, please contact Jungo Sales Department at sales@jungo.com.

About Jungo (Formerly KRFTech):
Jungo (Formerly KRFTech) Inc. is a privately held company supplying advanced solutions for the hardware access and device driver developers community since 1998. The Company provides easy to use toolkits which dramatically shorten the hardware and software developer's time to market. Jungo (Formerly KRFTech) is partner with PCI market leading companies such as PLX, Altera, QuickLogic and others.

In less than two years, Jungo (Formerly KRFTech) has become the technological leader in the hardware access market with thousands of customers, including companies such as IBM, HP, Motorola, Kodak and many others. Jungo's (Formerly KRFTech) revolutionary "WinDriver" product line enables developers to quickly create custom device drivers that can run on a multitude of operating systems without modification.

For more details please contact:
Jungo Sales Department:
Phone: 1-877-514-0537 (USA) or +972-9-885-9365 (Worldwide)
Fax: 972-9-8859365
Email: sales@jungo.com © KRFTech 2000

.KRFTech Ltd. Changes Name to Jungo Ltd.
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