Learn how WinDriver optimized performance and significantly enhanced time to market for SP Devices

Learn how WinDriver optimized performance and significantly enhanced time to market for SP Devices

Achievement
Signal Processing Devices AB, a leading provider of signal processing technology for analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion, used WinDriver from Jungo to develop an ultra-fast driver for its high-speed and deep resolution data acquisition product line.

Critical Contribution
WinDriver from Jungo was used to optimize performance and significantly enhance time to market.

We Provided
WinDriver from Jungo was chosen by SP Devices as its PCI Express driver development toolkit for two main reasons:
  • It is a rapid development tool, capable of maximizing hardware throughput while maintaining user-level simplicity.
  • Samples for the Virtex 5 FPGA are provided, reducing development time even further.
Interfacing with the ADQ line's controlling application, ADCCapture Lab, was immediate and freed up valuable resources needed elsewhere.

Result
"It took me about ten minutes to communicate with our new Xilinx FPGA-based device," says Peter Johansson, software engineer at SP Devices. "DMA functionally was a straight-forward process, due to Jungo's helpful manual and its user level API's."

"We also used WinDriver's unique kernel plug-in feature, enabling us to take both a user-level approach and a kernel-level one for handling interrupts. That helped us meet our latency demands, a mandatory requirement by many real-time applications".


About WinDriver
Jungo's WinDriver™ automates and simplifies the development of user mode device drivers and applications for USB / PCI / PCI Express / CardBus / PCMCIA / PCI-X / and CompactPCI under All Windows versions, Linux, Solaris, and VxWorks. WinDriver provides a complete solution for creating high performance drivers and custom hardware access applications, thereby enabling device manufacturers to focus on their driver's added-value functionality, instead of on operating system internals and the DDK. Enhanced Built-in support is available for Actel, Altera, Atmel, Cypress, National Semiconductor, PLDA, PLX, Microchip, Netchip, QuickLogic, Silicon Laboratories, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Xilinx.


About Jungo
Jungo Software Technologies is a leading supplier of residential gateway software solutions, driver development tools and hardware access applications. Jungo offers integrated reference designs with several of the most influential global silicon vendors, enabling its customers to simplify device development cycles, improve performance and accelerate time to market. Jungo is a privately held company with corporate offices in San Jose, California, sales and support offices in Taiwan and an R&D center in Israel. Founded in 1998, Jungo's investors include TeleSoft Partners, Conexant, Infineon Ventures and Intel Communications Fund.

Signal Processing Devices Sweden AB
Phone: +46 (0)13 465 0600
Fax: +46 (0)13 991 3044
Website: www.spdevices.com

Jungo Sales Department:
Phone: 1-877-514-0537 (USA) or +972-74-721-2223 (Worldwide)
Fax: 972-74-721-2122
Email: sales@jungo.com

 
About SP Devices
SP Devices of Sweden is the leading provider of signal processing technology for A/D conversion. It specializes in technologies such as interleaving and linearization, providing both off-the-shelf products and customized solutions.

The company's ultra-high performance A/D conversion products enable customers to build systems with state-of-the-art A/D performance in the areas of digital imaging, high-speed data acquisition, measurement and instrumentation, cellular base station transceiver (BST) applications and broadband communication.

The ADQ product line from SP Devices is based on one of the world's fastest and highest-resolution data acquisition cards. These signal processing devices are ideal for demanding measurement applications which require high-speed and deep resolution processing.

ADQ products provide an easy-to-use USB 2.0 interface and a PCI Express interface for high speed data transfer. They are equipped with the Xilinx Virtex 5 series FPGA.