Little Poll!

Hi All!

ABC company is planning to target costumer electronics which can be
easily integrated with windows family w2K onward and they want to make
sure that their product should be PnP.
Now their technical head is stuck in design phase , there are following
options in front of him:

1) Device should generate an interrupt [From low to high or high to low
transition] when ever plugged in. At least single transition should be
there to tell its presence.

2) Device should come up with proper set of protocol [ Series of
transitions , handshaking ] That is preferred approach.

3) No Device should be dump , It should never generate an interrupt
when ever plugged in. PC Software(Driver) will take care of it. [
Doesn't it make any sense? ]


Your Option!


-ali

Maxim
Thu Aug 11 19:53:42 CDT 2005

Let's start with the interface choice. What bus do you want to use? PCI?
USB?

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"Ali" <abdulrazaq@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1123781325.974708.143390@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi All!
>
> ABC company is planning to target costumer electronics which can be
> easily integrated with windows family w2K onward and they want to make
> sure that their product should be PnP.
> Now their technical head is stuck in design phase , there are following
> options in front of him:
>
> 1) Device should generate an interrupt [From low to high or high to low
> transition] when ever plugged in. At least single transition should be
> there to tell its presence.
>
> 2) Device should come up with proper set of protocol [ Series of
> transitions , handshaking ] That is preferred approach.
>
> 3) No Device should be dump , It should never generate an interrupt
> when ever plugged in. PC Software(Driver) will take care of it. [
> Doesn't it make any sense? ]
>
>
> Your Option!
>
>
> -ali
>

Ali
Thu Aug 11 23:08:11 CDT 2005

Thats good! at least i got one opinion.
I thought ABC company has to shutdown their electronics business;-)


PCI bus would be their choice.

-ali

Doron
Fri Aug 12 02:24:24 CDT 2005

the PCI bus driver would take care of detecting insertion and removal of the
device, you don't have to do anything in software other then conform to the
PCI spec.

d

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"Ali" <abdulrazaq@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thats good! at least i got one opinion.
> I thought ABC company has to shutdown their electronics business;-)
>
>
> PCI bus would be their choice.
>
> -ali
>

Ali
Fri Aug 12 02:46:20 CDT 2005

Thanks Doron! but you havn't selected any specific option from given
poll.
Do you mean thirld option is required?


3) No Device should be dump , It should never generate an interrupt
when ever plugged in. PC Software(Driver) will take care of it.

Friendly
Fri Aug 12 18:25:29 CDT 2005

Step 1 is to get the latest Device Driver Developer Kit that targets the
platforms you wish your hardware to work with.

Step 2 is to read the Table Of Contents of the Driver Design section of the
DDK, to get an idea of what is involved in a Windows driver in general.
Looking for sections that pertain to your particular hardware, such as
kernel-streaming, usb, WDM, storage.

Step 3 is to identify the sample code within the DDK that relates to your
device, make a copy of the project, get it to build for the platforms you
want to support, and then identify what is special about your device such
that the source code needs to be changed.

Also, research what is available from existing software providers by
following links from major contributors to this newsgroup -- often you will
find a library, or a solution, that can shorten your time-to-market and
guarantee the quality of the software -- you will find many utilities that
are invaluable during the research and development of a Windows driver.

"Ali" <abdulrazaq@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Doron! but you havn't selected any specific option from given
> poll.
> Do you mean thirld option is required?
>
>
> 3) No Device should be dump , It should never generate an interrupt
> when ever plugged in. PC Software(Driver) will take care of it.
>

Ali
Sat Aug 13 22:33:42 CDT 2005

Thank You!

I really appreciate your post and time;-)


-ali