Device Driver Windows (NXDRV-WIN)

Features

• Based on the cifX Toolkit source
• x86 and x64 (also known as AMD64) support for 7, 8/8.1, Windows 10
• Support for PCI, PCIe, PC/104, PCI-104, ISA netX based hardware
• DMA data transfer for I/O data (only PCI based cifX PC cards , see "Limitations" also)
• Unlimited number of cifX boards supported
• Support for netX90 based devices
• Support for CIFX M.2 cards added
• Microsoft WHQL certification for Windows 7
• Verified on Windows 11

Limitations

• Windows Plug & Play power save mode supported by the driver
  Attention: The actual netX hardware states are not stored and will be lost during power down!
  On system wake-up the hardware is re-started like on system power-on.
• No IA64 / ARM support
• Response times of driver calls are operating system and system load depending. Deterministic response times can’t be guaranteed
• No DMA support for NXSB-PCA, NX-PCA-PCI, CIFX M.2 boards
• No MSI support for CIFX cards, except for CIFX M.2 cards

CIFX Hardware Related Product Features

• PC Cards - cifX

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Description

The CIFX/netX device driver is a kernel-mode driver that runs in Ring 0 of the operating system and supports the Windows plug-and play mechanisms.

ISA, PCI and PCI/e components are supported and can be combined arbitrarily using an unlimited number of components.

The user application uses a Windows API DLL to communicate with the driver. The DLL provides a simple C function interface (CIFX-API) and can be linked statically or dynamically to an application. Both driver and API DLL are available for 32/64Bit Windows systems.

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Road map

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