For companies working with FPGAs, interfacing with PLX devices like the PLX9656 is common and often essential. However, one of the most persistent challenges in leveraging these chipsets is developing and maintaining stable, high-performance driver software.
Jungo’s WinDriver presents an ideal solution. It abstracts low-level driver development into a powerful user-mode API, significantly reducing development time and effort. WinDriver provides out-of-the-box samples for the following devices:
Whether it’s DMA capabilities, interrupt handling or memory mapping; Jungo’s WinDriver is the perfect solution for engineering teams focused on reliability, scalability, and cross-platform compatibility.
PLX devices are often used as glue logic in FPGA-based hardware systems. For example, the PLX9656 enables a PCI interface between a host system and an FPGA card, offering burst-mode DMA, address translation, and fine-grained interrupt control. In many cases, these chips are used to bridge PCI/PCIe buses with custom logic inside an FPGA, such as in data acquisition or signal processing platforms.
Other devices like the PLX8111 and PEX 8112 act as PCIe-to-PCI bridges, enabling legacy FPGA boards to connect to modern motherboards. These devices are invaluable in industrial and medical environments where product lifecycles can span decades and maintaining compatibility is critical.
PLX9656
PCI Bus Master Bridge
High-speed interfacing with FPGAs and DSPs. Robust burst-mode DMA, large address space support, multiple chip selects. Ideal for data acquisition and real-time streaming applications.
PLX9030
Local Bus to PCI Interface Chip
Connecting microcontrollers and FPGAs to PCI. Simplified design path, low pin count, and suitable for custom FPGA boards where minimal PCI logic is needed.
PLX9054
PCI Bus Master I/O Accelerator
Communication co-processor in FPGA-based systems. Reliable DMA, easy-to-use memory windows, excellent for mid-tier industrial integration.
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(a) You may not distribute, or otherwise transfer or assign, any portion of the Software, including any of the headers or source files that are included in the Software, unless otherwise expressly permitted in this Agreement, subject to the provisions of Section 4 above.
(b) Subject to your full and continued compliance with the terms of this Agreement, including the ongoing payment of annual license fees, you may distribute the following files:
Windows:
-windrvr1640.sys
-windrvr1640_legacy.sys
-windrvr1640.inf
-windrvr1640.cat
-wdapi1640.dll
-wdapi1640_32.dll
-wdapi1640_arm64.dll
-wdapi_dotnet1640.dll
-wdapi_dotnet1640_32.dll
-wdapi_netcore1640.dll
-wdapi_java1640.dll
-wdapi_java1640.jar
-wdreg.exe
-difxapi.dll
-devcon.exe
-windrvr1630.sys
-windrvr1630.inf
-wd1630.cat
-wdapi1630.dll
-wdapi_dotnet1630.dll
-wdapi_java1630.dll wdapi_java1600.jar
-windrvr1220.dll
-wdapi1220.dll
Linux:
-windrvr_gcc_v3.o_shipped
-windrvr_gcc_v3_regparm.o_shipped
-kp_linux_gcc_v3.o
-kp_linux_gcc_v3_regparm.o
-libwdapi1640.so libwdapi1640_32.so
-libwdapi_java1640.so
-libwdapi_java1640_32.so
-wdapi_java1640.jar
-wdapi_netcore1640.dll
-kp_wdapi1640_gcc_v3.o_shipped
-kp_wdapi1640_gcc_v3_regparm.o_shipped
-linux_wrappers.c
-linux_wrappers.h
-wdusb_linux.c
-wdusb_interface.h
-wd_ver.h
-linux_common.h
-windrvr.h
-windrvr_usb.h
-wdsriov_interface.h
-wdsriov_linux.c
-wdreg
-configure makefile.in
-configure.wd makefile.wd.in
-makefile.wd.kbuild.in
-configure.usb
-makefile.usb.in
-makefile.usb.kbuild.in
-setup_inst_dir
-windrvr_gcc_v2.a windrvr_gcc_v3.a windrvr_gcc_v3_regparm.a
-kp_linux_gcc_v2.o kp_linux_gcc_v3.o kp_linux_gcc_v3_regparm.o
-libwdapi1630.so
-libwdapi_java1630.so wdapi_java1600.java
-kp_wdapi1630_gcc_v2.a kp_wdapi1600_gcc_v3.a kp_wdapi1600_gcc_v3_regparm.a
-linux_wrappers.c linux_wrappers.h wdusb_linux.c
-wdusb_interface.h wd_ver.h linux_common.h windrvr.h windrvr_usb.h
-configure.wd makefile.wd.in makefile.wd.kbuild.in
-configure.usb makefile.usb.in makefile.usb.kbuild.in
macOS:
-libwdapi1640.dyld
-libwdapi_java1640.jar
-libwdapi_java1640.dyld
-wdapi_netcore1640.dll
-WinDriver1640.kext
-WinDriver1640.dext
-wd_mac_install.sh
-wd_mac_uninstall.sh
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(d) The distribution of the windrvr.h header file is permitted only on Linux.
(e) You may not modify the distributed files specified in Section 5.b of this Agreement.
(f) You may not distribute any header file that describes the WinDriver functions, or functions that call the WinDriver functions and have the same basic functionality as that of the WinDriver functions.
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