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A Tool Kit for Rapid Development of Device Drivers in Embedded Systems
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- Authors
- Jeong Si Kim, Woo Il Kwon, Chae Deok Lim
- Issue Date
- 2006-11
- Citation
- International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology (ICHIT) 2006, pp.1-10
- Language
- English
- Type
- Conference Paper
- Abstract
- Developing device driver is known as a major bottleneck in embedded system development, since it is difficult and time consuming to understand OS internals and decode hardware intricacies of peripheral devices using many device manual and documentation. Additionally, complex and remote development environment for embedded systems increases the burden of developing device drivers. In this paper, we present a tool kit for reducing the efforts of device driver development in embedded Linux systems. The tool kit consists of three tools: device resource diagnostic tool, system message logging tool and kernel shell. Device resource diagnostics tool allows developers to access and manipulate the kernel and hardware resources of devices immediately. System message logging tool and kernel shell enable developers to check the target system status instantly and execute kernel API without kernel programming. Using the tool kit, we expect that driver developers could significantly reduce the time and efforts in developing device drivers.
- KSP Keywords
- Development environment, Device driver, Diagnostic tool, Driver Development, Embedded system, Hardware Resources, Kernel API, Message logging, Peripheral devices, Rapid development, embedded linux