Driver Development for USB/PCI: WinDriver

No DDK knowledge, or kernel-level development is required!

WinDriver is designed to create custom device drivers. If you are looking for standard PC USB Communication Drivers, see DriverCore.

• Immediate Hardware Access
  Test your hardware through a graphical user-mode application, without having to write a single line of code.
  
  
• Generation of hardware-specific access code
  WinDriver generates a skeletal driver code, customized for the user's hardware.
  
  
• Performance Optimization
  Use WinDriver's Kernel PlugIn technology to develop your driver in the user-mode - then run performance critical sections of it in the Kernel Mode (Ring 0) to achieve optimal performance (more).
  
  
• WHQL Certifiable Driver
  WinDriver's Windows drivers are WHQL ready – you will not need to invest time and efforts on making your driver WHQL compliant. Jungo also can prepare the WHQL submission package for you.
  
  
• Field-proven quality
  WinDriver's technology enables you to concentrate on your core business and successfully create first-rate drivers without having to invest redundant resources in driver development from scratch.
  
  
• User-mode programming
  WinDriver's architecture enables driver development in the user mode, while maintaining kernel-mode performance.
  
  
• Debugging
  Included graphical Debug Monitor to monitor kernel level activity throughout the driver development process.
  
  
• Multiple operating system support
  WinDriver product line supports Windows 2000 / XP / XP Embedded / Server 2003, Vista, Windows CE / Mobile, Linux, Solaris and VxWorks.
  
  
• Cross operating system capabilities
  The same driver will run under all supported operating systems without any code modifications.
  
  
• 64-bit Support
  Allow utilizing the additional bandwidth provided by 64-bit hardware and enable 64-bit data transfer on x86 platforms running 32-bit operating systems. Drivers developed with WinDriver will attain significantly better performance results than drivers written with the DDK or other driver development tools that do not support this feature.
  
  
• FPGA Access
  Access, control and program FPGA chips via the PCI bus. Enhanced support for FPGA vendors including Altera and Xilinx is included.
  
  
• Complete .NET Framework Support
  Easily incorporate WinDriver's C# or VB.NET code into your existing .NET application using the powerful object oriented managed extensions for C++ library.
• Samples
  Many samples which can be used as a starting point for your own driver. Special samples for various PCI / USB chip vendors, such as PLX,  Altera, Cypress, Microchip, Philips,  Silicon Laboratories, QuickLogic, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Xilinx, and Agere.