WinDriver™
Develop high performance user-mode USB drivers

WinDriver™ is the market leading driver development toolkit for developing high performance, high quality user-mode device drivers. WinDriver™ supports any USB / PCI device, regardless of its silicon vendor, and lets you focus on your driver's added-value functionality, not the operating system's internals. Developing Chapter 9 firmware for USB devices? Check out WinDriver™ USB Device. Need to test your custom hardware? Check out Hardware Debugger.

Key Features

• Complete support for USB, PCI, PCI Express, CardBus, CompactPCI, ISA, PMC, PCI-X, PCI-104 and PCMCIA.


• Enables driver development for Windows 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP / XP Embedded / Server 2003 / Vista, Windows CE.NET, Windows Mobile 5.0, Linux, Solaris and VxWorks.


• No DDK knowledge or kernel-level development required.


• Chipset Support: enhanced built-in support for PLX, Altera, Cypress, Silicon Laboratories, QuickLogic, National Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Xilinx, Agere, PLDA and AMCC.


• Immediate Hardware Access: test your hardware through a graphical user-mode application, without having to write a line of code.


• Generation of hardware-specific access code: WinDriver™ generates a skeletal driver code, customized for the user's hardware. User-mode programming WinDriver's™ architecture enables driver development in the user mode, while maintaining kernel-mode performance.


• 64-bit Support: allows utilizing the additional bandwidth provided by 64-bit hardware and enables 64-bit data transfer on x86 platforms running 32-bit operating systems.


• WHQL certifiable driver: digitally sign your Windows driver by submitting it to Microsoft’s WHQL testing.

Key Benefits

• Fast: shorten driver development cycle and time to market.


• Simple: no OS internals or kernel knowledge required.


• Easy: develop your device driver in user mode using the intuitive & dynamic Wizard.


• Powerful: achieve optimal performance while maintaining user-mode simplicity.


• Stable: field tested on thousands of HW / OS configurations.


• Portable: the driver is source compatible across Windows 98/Me/NT/ 2000/XP/XP Embedded/ Server 2003, Windows CE.NET, Linux, Solaris and VxWorks. Just recompile!


• WHQL Compliant: WHQL certifiable code.


• Up-to-date: develop your driver in C# or VB.NET using the .NET framework support.