What

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Whats new in NETWorks 6.2
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Major NETOS 6.2 features

• New Development Tools
• Support for the NS9360
• Security Features
• Discovery Tools
• USB memory class driver
• FAT32 File system support
• Major BSP and TCP/IP Performance Improvements

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Development Tool Chains

• GHS 4.0.5 Tool Chain
• Microcross GNU 3.4.0
• Smaller Footprint Images
• Improved Optimization for speed
• Tool upgrade is necessary
• GNU support for DSP Instructions
• Overall Tighter and improved performance

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Support for 9360

• Support for the 9360 Development Board
• New 9360 specific drivers
• RTC
• PWM

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New Security Features

• SNMPv3
• Secure / Remote Management
• SNMPv3 Security uses shared secrets and includes
• message authentication
• privacy
• authorization and access control
• ESMTP
• Used by most ISPs to confirm senders access
  rights and prevents SPAM
• Mobile users who switch hosts can use same mail
  server
• Example laptop wireless hotspot -gt mail
  servers would reject messages
• User Access Control includes authentication
  methods
• Login / Plain / CRAM-MD5 / MD5

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New Security Features cont.

• DES/3-DES/AES Encryption API
• Provides pseudorandom function with a shared
  secret key
• LDAPv
• Uses the OpenLDAP project (as is).
• LDAPv3 provides
• Access to directories for management and browser
  applications
• Secure authentication mechanism

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ADDP Discovery Tool

• Discovers ADDP Devices on a broad network
• Windows Client SW available
• Allows end users to easily deploy new units
• and configure their network settings
• Makes Device Networking Easy for customers

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USB Memory Class Driver/FAT32 File system support

• USB Host Memory Class Driver support (ARM9)
• Interfaces directly to FAT32 File system
• Can use a Flash stick to copy files to target
• Easy to use for Configuration parameters
• Extract run time data

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BSP Performance Improvements

• Improved ARM9 (9750, 9360) Interrupt latency
• Reduced critical time in ARM9 platforms
• Max 5usec max
• Improved ARM9 MMU usage model
• Write-back cache v. write-through
• Big contributor to performance boost
• Improved memcpy()
• Improved and Easy-to-use Device Drivers
• New SPI Master API
• Supports high speed DMA across all platforms
• New SPI Slave API
• New I2C Master API

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TCP/IP Performance Improvements

• Address Conflict Detection API
• Per Internet Draft IPv4 Address Conflict
  Detection
• Increased TCP/IP Tuning
• Options for Low Latency / High Performance
• Pre-allocated Static Memory Allocation
• Run-Time Programmable MSL
• Will reduce memory needs for network heap
• Improved Performance
• 15-50 improvements on GHS. Even more on GNU.

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Web Server Run Time Features

• New Features to allow run-time control of web
  server parameters
• Port number
• Persistance timeout
• Session timeout
• Number of Connections
• Ability to RST connections instead of close
• Reduces memory usage
• Corrected the ability to serve large web objects

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Improved FTP Interoperability

• Extended interoperability to include WS_FTP and
  most of IE.
• Better handling of the PASV mode
• Present support for Windows, Linux,
• Unix, and Mozilla.