San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Jungo announced the release of WinDriver and KernelDriver version 5.0 driver development tools. Jungo's driver development tools offer hardware access and driver code generation capabilities, through a rich API. Until now, these were offered through a graphical user interface to Windows users only. Jungo WinDriver / KernelDriver Version 5.0 includes a multi platform Wizard, bringing the graphical driver development environment to Linux and Solaris driver developers as well. Version 5.0 also incorporates a remote hardware access tool under a variety of operating systems. Additionally, further enhancements and bug fixes were made in order to improve the ease of development and the products' stability.

WinDriver 5.0 is the only tool that provides the Unix world with a graphical user interface for hardware access, enabling hardware detection and debugging, as well as automatic driver code generation, using a rich API. WinDriver v. 5.0 brings the successful DriverWizard to the Linux and Solaris communities, simplifying the process of hardware access and driver development, by allowing quick and simple diagnosis of hardware, using robust graphical tools, before writing a single line of code, and automating the driver code generation process.

Version 5.0 also offers developers Remote WinDriver. This new feature enables developers to access hardware on any remote target machine, including embedded systems, from a host machine, via any network connection (LAN, WAN, Dialup etc.). Developers can plug their hardware in on a remote target machine, running on one of the operating systems supported by WinDriver, and access it from their host development workstation at any location, under Windows NT/2000, Linux, or Solaris. Now it is possible to auto-detect the hardware plugged into the remote target machine (including USB devices), test and diagnose it from the host machine and automatically generate the driver source code for the target device. The library of APIs generated by the Wizard is specifically suited to the specific target hardware.

 
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