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• netX100/500, netX50, netX51/netX52 Bootstrap support

• Basic interrupt functions included

• Event handling for I/O and packet transfer functions

• Support of Loadable Firmware Modules (NXO files) consisting of a Base OS Module and Loadable Protocol Stack Modules

• Device time setting during start-up

Options:

• • Little Endian / Big Endian support (selectable via toolkit definition)

  • DMA support for I/O data transfer (selectable via a toolkit definition, only for PCI devices where netX is directly connected to the PCI bus)

  • Extended Parameter Check of Toolkit Functions (selectable via a toolkit definition)
  • Device time setting during start-up
  • Custom Hardware Access Interface (e.g. DPM via SPI, selectable via a toolkit definition)

Restrictions

• Several functions must be implemented by the user, before being able to use the toolkit
• Basic Interrupt support is included. Only the start-up phase is done in polling mode. The interrupts will be activated after the device has been fully configured
• Hardware recognition like PCI scanning routines are not included
• On Big Endian CPUs, the user application will need to convert communication channel and send/receive packet content to/from Little Endian representation.
  This is NOT automatically done inside the toolkit.
  Only device global data from the system channel are converted by the toolkit.
• The sample project, created for Win32, does not allow PCI cards (CIFX50 / CIFX90 etc.) being completely restarted (Hardware Reset), because PCI registers are not accessible from a Win32 user application.

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