In this technical whitepaper, Viosoft CEO Hieu Tran uses his company's debugging tools to explore QuickLogic's FPGA-based PCI bridge for Intel's PXA-27x, and an Atheros Wi-Fi card. He turns up an interesting attempt by Atheros to balance GPL compliance while protecting confidential third-party information.

The article outlines Tran's experience in setting up and using the QuickLogic PXA Wi-Fi daughter board to add a Atheros 802.11 A/G wireless card to Intel's PXA27x Mainstone evaluation board. By using a kernel debugger to set a few breakpoints in selected source files, he gathers some important clues about the operation of the bridge.

Learn more about Viosoft's debugger, the QuickLogic PXA Wi-Fi daughterboard, and the binary component in Atheros's driver source code by reading Tran's whitepaper.

 
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