Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — PLX Technology, Inc. today announced a PCI software development kit (SDK) to provide broad support for Linux and Windows Me operating systems in products using PLX PCI silicon. The new PLX PCI SDK Pro v3.3 brings Windows Me support for the first time to all PLX I/O Accelerator and I/O Processor chips, and adds Linux support for an additional three PLX devices,… while dramatically shortening development cycle and time to market for PCI and CompactPCI products.

The PCI SDK Pro v3.3 provides software developers with a complete set of tools: Windows and Linux host drivers, host application programming interfaces (APIs) and libraries; and local-side drivers, APIs, and real-time operating system (RTOS) support. The kit augments existing Linux support for the PCI 9054 I/O Accelerator chip with support for the PCI 9030, PCI 9050 and PCI 9052 I/O Accelerator devices, providing Linux users with a wide range of devices to choose from with drivers that have been validated with the Linux 2.4 kernel.

With the PCI SDK Pro v3.3's broad PCI silicon support, developers can write host- and local-side software for any of the PLX PCI I/O Accelerators, ranging from 32-bit, 33MHz chips to 64-bit, 66MHz devices, as well as PLX's PowerPC-based I/O Processor chip.

 
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