PLX Launches New Oxide Software Application

PLX Technology, Inc., a global supplier feature-rich semiconductors and software solutions, has released its Oxide 3.0 software development kit (SDK), a software application that enables engineers to customize PLX serial connectivity devices in minutes instead of hours or days.

 

The company said that Oxide’s intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) and step-through workflow provides simple point-and-click feature selections, as well as text-box entry for fast, error-free device and driver customization without resorting to complicated code editing.

 

The company officials said that the Oxide SDK comes with lots of features, including the unique and convenient automatic-update design base, which alerts engineers to all new documentation and software revisions assuring that designers always have the proper tools on their local workstation, including data books, application notes and device drivers.

 

In addition to this feature, the Oxide Branding and Installer Creation tools allow easy custom configuration of the PLX device drivers and the ability to create custom installers via step-thru windows, thus avoiding complicated source code editing.

 

This customization includes adding logos, graphics and text, which personalize the product to the designer’s brand. Oxide’s EEPROM programming utility and INF file editing tool allows the user to avoid editing at the low level, which is both time-consuming and error-prone. This simple text entry format covers the needs of the vast majority of users.

 

“As system complexity continues to increase -- driven by higher levels of integration and complexity on today’s system-on-a-chip silicon -- the data communications side of the system also has become equally important,” said Richard Wawrzyniak, senior market analyst for Semico Research, in a statement.

 

Wawrzyniak said that the approach of aiding the solution designer with powerful software tools to allow rapid and comprehensive configuration of the silicon is essential if market windows are to be met to keep time-to-market within the necessary boundaries. He said that the Oxide 3.0 SDK from PLX Technology (News - Alert) provides the necessary tools to system designers that allow them to hit their market windows and time-to-market targets.

 

The company officials said that Oxide 3.0 has been developed to support the entire PLX serial bridge family of products including the new OXPCIe200 PCI Express-to-USB host controller bridge.