WinDriver user-mode PCI API for Mac OS X

WinDriver » PCI/PCI-Express for Mac OS X
WinDriver™ PCI for Mac OS X automates and simplifies the development of user-mode Mac OS X device drivers and hardware control applications for PCI / PCI-Express peripheral devices. No OS internals knowledge or kernel level programming required.

Former and other WinDriver version users will be able to use the strong Cross OS portability feature to their advantage.


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.


Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
  • x86 32-bit, x86 64-bit, or PowerPC architectures.
  • Mac OS X v10.5 and later.
  • For x86_64 architecture: Mac OS X v10.6 and later.


Specifications
  • Driver footprint:
    • x86 : 340KB
    • x64 : 340KB
  • Hard drive space:
    • x86 : 268.8MB
    • x64 : 268.8MB
  • Driver is delivered as unified binary for all 3 supported platforms.
  • Supports power management events handling.
  • Supports I/O, DMA, interrupt handling and access to memory mapped cards.
  • Check out the Installation Instructions page for latest instructions.
Features
  • Friendly Wizard:

    WinDriver provides hardware verification and diagnostics and automatic code generation for Mac OS X Xcode development tool, all through a graphical DriverWizard. (Only when running on Linux or Windows platform).

  • Code Generation:

    WinDriver automatically generates skeletal driver code specific to your hardware, for Mac OS X Xcode development tool.

    In addition to supporting any PCI peripheral, WinDriver includes enhanced support for leading PCI vendors, such as PLX, Xilinx and Altera. This enhanced support includes vendor-specific driver samples, which can be used to further accelerate the driver development process.

  • PCI Express Extended Support :

    WinDriver enables you to utilize PCIe MSI and MSI-X supported. Read more on our PCI-Express page.

  • Detailed examples in C.

  • 64-Bit Architectures Support:

    WinDriver supports the 64-bit Intel EM64T CPU architectures (known as "x86_64") on Mac OS X v10.6.


WinDriver is your ultimate driver development tool for Mac OS X!

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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.

What Else is Included?
  • Comprehensive documentation and help files.
  • Technical support, according to Jungo's technical support plan.
  • No run-time fees or royalties.