Customer case study: Breakthrough Systems
Breakthrough’s innovative software solutions enable
storage and telecom OEMs to quickly and cost-effectively bring
to market diverse storage devices and systems, ranging from tape
and disk drives to advanced arrays and libraries, by accelerating
target mode driver development. VARs and OEMs typically bundle
BSI’s various virtualization offerings with a hardware
device to offer a turnkey storage virtualization appliance.
The SCSI Target Mode Driver component is a platform agnostic
module used on embedded applications running Linux and other
operating systems. It provides infrastructure for the access to
the storage interface hardware (Host Bus Adapter) within a
general-purpose operating system. The BSI SCSI Target Mode Driver
implements the functionality of what is known as the SCSI
transport services layer. The SCSI transport layer can be a
traditional parallel SCSI, SAS, Fiber Channel or iSCSI. Commands,
status and data are sent and received via the Target Mode Driver
API.
BSI’s user level applications as the Virtual Disk
Software (VDS) and Virtual Tape Library (VTL) use the Target Mode
Driver to access the hardware on the supported operating
systems.
“WinDriver was selected to provide platform portability
for our storage interface hardware driver components for the most
popular GPOS” says Terry Spear, BSI’s CTO. “The
BSI software is designed to be platform independent supporting
both embedded real time (RTOS) and general purpose operating
systems (GPOS). WinDriver was the enabling technology to allow
our software to be platform independent in the latest generation
GPOSs. It also allowed our embedded storage interface driver
products to be quickly ported to Linux and Solaris.”
“Our alternative to using WinDriver was to build a
traditional OS specific driver for each storage interface HBA we
wanted to support. This created a “m x n” problem of
the number of unique drivers we would have to create and support.
As a cost savings move, BSI used WinDriver to reduce the “m
x n” to “n”.”
Breakthrough Systems SCSI Target Mode Drivers control PCI Host
Bus Adapter products. The drivers access ASIC registers, set up
PCI Bus master DMA and respond to interrupts. The WinDriver APIs
are used for DMA mapping, interrupt control and general
high-performance PCI access. WinDriver’s unique
architecture also allows this layer to be implemented in the user
mode.
About WinDriver
Jungo's WinDriver™ automates and simplifies the development of user
mode device drivers and applications for USB / PCI / PCI Express / CardBus / ISA / PCMCIA / PCI-X /
and CompactPCI under Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/XP Embedded/ Server 2003, Windows CE, Linux, Solaris and VxWorks.
WinDriver provides a complete solution for creating high performance drivers and custom hardware access applications,
thereby enabling device manufacturers to focus on their driver's added-value functionality,
instead of on operating system internals and the DDK. Enhanced Built-in support is available for Actel,
Altera, Atmel, Cypress, National Semiconductor, PLDA, PLX, Microchip, Netchip, QuickLogic, Silicon Laboratories,
STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Xilinx.
About Breakthrough
Breakthrough Systems, Inc. (BSI) is an established storage
software company serving storage OEMs and VARs worldwide.
BSI’s products range from Fiber Channel and SCSI target
mode drivers with protocol stacks, to “ready to
brand” scalable Virtual Tape Library and Virtual Disk
appliance software. BSI provides dramatic time-to-market
advantages by delivering tested semi-custom foundation products.
This is accomplished by leveraging their extensive portfolio of
platform independent storage software modules.
About Jungo
Jungo Software Technologies is a leading supplier of residential
gateway software solutions, driver development tools and hardware
access applications. Jungo offers integrated reference designs with
several of the most influential global silicon vendors, enabling its
customers to simplify device development cycles, improve performance
and accelerate time to market. Jungo is a privately held company with
corporate offices in San Jose, California, sales and support offices in
Taiwan and an R&D center in Israel. Founded in 1998, Jungo's
investors include TeleSoft Partners, Conexant, Infineon Ventures and
Intel Communications Fund.
Breakthrough Systems Contact Details:
1380 Forest Park Circle, Suite# 204, Lafayette, CO 80026
Phone: 877-661-0355 x103
Fax: 303-661-9707
Email: info@breakthroughsys.com
www.breakthroughsys.com
Jungo Sales Department:
Phone: 1-877-514-0537 (USA) or +972-9-885-9365 (Worldwide)
Fax: 972-9-8859365
Email: sales@jungo.com
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