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Design of an Automatic Generation System of Device Drivers Using Templates  

Kim, Hyoun-Chul (서강대학교 전자공학과 CAD & ES. 연구실)
Lee, Ser-Hoon (서강대학교 전자공학과 CAD & ES. 연구실)
Hwang, Sun-Young (서강대학교 전자공학과 CAD & ES. 연구실)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.33, no.9C, 2008 , pp. 652-660 More about this Journal
Abstract
Applications running under embedded systems require various device drivers designed for different types and versions of the OS to manage resources effectively. In this paper, an automated device driver generator system which can generate the device drivers to be used in newer versions the target OS is proposed. In the proposed system, the structures of device drivers of specific OS are designed in the templates and stored in a library, and the target device drivers are generated by adding codes to the stored templates. Once device drivers are generated, they are registered into the kernel. The experimental results show that data transfer time has been slightly increased when compared against manually created drivers for TFT-LCD driver, USB interface keyboard/mouse driver, and AC'97 controller drivers. The code size for the generated drivers after compilation has also been increased slightly when compared with manually designed device drivers.
Keywords
Embedded system; Device driver; Automatic generation;
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