Figure 8-37 shows a high-level flow chart of the MAC layer processing a MAC client’s (an upper layer) request to transmit a frame. Click for larger image ... 0 comments on “ Embedded Systems ...

In this installment, the author offers a detailed look at how device drivers handle management of an embedded system's overall memory subsystem. Adapted from “Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd ...

We design a deadlock-free resource accessing scheme for our device access model. Finally, we synthesize an operating system (OS) based event processing mechanism, which is the core of the device ...

Currently the development of embedded software managing hardware devices that fulfills industrial constraints (safety, real time constraints) is a very complex task. To allow an increased reusability ...

The device driver then calls vuart’s data input API function to read the data from receiver FIFO. Figure 4: EDGE SimTest pure virtual UART simulation model block diagram. Writing a Simulated Device ...

On the software side, device driver development is often the bottleneck. It is inherently error-prone and complex due to the need for thorough knowledge about the innumerable peripherals that exists ...

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This excerpt, Chapter 14 from the book, focuses pin control and GPIOs — an area of particular importance to embedded systems developers looking to interact with custom hardware devices. This ...

Equally important in the I/O-intensive sphere of embedded programming is porting RTOS application hardware interface code to the more formal Linux device driver model. This article surveys several ...