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How to resolve configuration of a peripheral driver in C++?
I have been solving following architectural problem. I have been implementing a software driver for a fpga peripheral (basically a digital filter with two filtering algorithms). The main goals of the ...
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Operating systems - whose responsibility is it to coordinate process I/O requests?
I am reading Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems. I want to understand a particular concept regarding processes and blocking system calls, specifically with regards to I/O. I assume threads might ...
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Architecture for interfacing to embedded systems hardware in c++
I have been spending quite a bit of time recently researching the "best" (read most elegant. robust, simple to use, and resource friendly) ways to develop low-level hardware abstractions for ...
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Low level C driver API
Recently I had my first experience writing a wrapper around FTD2XX driver for a desktop tool that communicates with an embedded device. The library provided some common device specific functionality ...
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Software driver for remote digital inputs
I have been facing a task to develop a software driver in C++ for a chip which makes available 8 digital inputs over the SPI bus. In the time being I have been thinking about the interface of the ...
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How to aid (do the testing for) a developer who doesn't own a touchpad to implement Precision bindings?
First of all, I consider myself to be a power user, but wouldn't dare to call myself a software designer. I opened a feature request to add support for Windows' Precision Touchpad binding in the ...
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Does driver-device interaction from one operating-system environment affect the driver-device interaction on another operating-system environment? [closed]
I'm working on another tutorial: if l used a computer with an SSD-hard-drive containing an instance of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed with a set of Nvidia GPUs loaded with the Nvidia-CUDA toolkit but ...
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Can a driver running in kernel mode access a port directly?
Based on what I know so far, if I want to create a driver, and want the driver to send data on some port (for example: serial/parallel/USB), my driver will communicate with the port driver, and the ...
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