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A device driver, or software driver, is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a device.

A driver typically communicates with the device through the computer bus or communications subsystem to which the hardware is connected. When a calling program invokes a routine in the driver, the driver issues commands to the device. Once the device sends data back to the driver, the driver may invoke routines in the original calling program. Drivers are hardware-dependent and operating-system-specific. They usually provide the interrupt handling required for any necessary asynchronous time-dependent hardware interface.

Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver)

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    • A device driver, or software driver, is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a device.

      A driver typically communicates with the device through the computer bus or communications subsystem to which the hardware is connected. When a calling program invokes a routine in the driver, the driver issues commands to the device. Once the device sends data back to the driver, the driver may invoke routines in the original calling program. Drivers are hardware-dependent and operating-system-specific. They usually provide the interrupt handling required for any necessary asynchronous time-dependent hardware interface.

      Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver)

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      Development of a Generic Flash Device Driver for Cellular Phones

      The thesis' aim is to develop a generic device driver concept for handling NOR flash memory devices in an embedded cellular phone system. This concept describes the process of designing, implementing as well as testing the software on the Philips Nexperia Cellular System Solution platform. An overview of the current flash market, today's and future meaning of NOR flash memory as well as the Nexperia environment, serves as an introduction...
      http://www.amazon.com

      Device Driver @ Wikipedia

      A device driver, or a software driver is a specific type of computer software, typically developed to allow interaction with hardware devices. Typically this constitutes an interface for communicating with the device, through the specific computer bus or communications subsystem that the hardware is connected to, providing commands to and/or receiving data from the device, and on the other end, the requisite interfaces to the operating...
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver

      Writing Windows CE Display Drivers

      This article reviews the fundamentals of graphics, display hardware, and Windows CE display driver development, including the display driver C++ classes. It then explores improvements to the C++ classes that will simplify display driver development.
      http://www.intelligraphics.com/articles/wincedrivers_article.html

      Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) FAQ

      The information on this page is intended primarily for network software developers who are working on lower-level network-related NDIS device drivers for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
      http://www.pcausa.com/resources/ndisfaq.htm

      Device Driver Developer Resources

      Hot list of Device Driver resources.
      http://www.intelligraphics.com/resources.html

      Unified IO - C++ interface for industrial IO cards

      During our professional experience we have had many problems in finding drivers for industrial control cards for not much proliferated platforms like Linux, OS/2 and other platforms. We believe that many industrial control system developers have the same problems.
      http://www.bbdsoft.com/interface.html

      Windows NT Device Driver Development

      OSR Press is pleased to announce the availability of OSR Classic Reprints: Windows NT Device Driver Development. For years, this has been the definitive and comprehensive technical reference for software engineers, systems programmers, and any engineer who needs to understand Windows NT systems internals. While this text has a fresh new look on the outside, the text, pictures, code samples and references on the inside are vintage 1998....
      http://www.amazon.com

      Essential Linux Device Drivers

      Linux now offers an exceptionally robust environment for driver development: with today’s kernels, what once required years of development time can be accomplished in days. In this practical, example-driven book, one of the world’s most experienced Linux driver developers systematically demonstrates how to develop reliable Linux drivers for virtually any device. Essential Linux Device Drivers is for any programmer with a working knowledge of...
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      D. Kalinsky Associates White Papers

      A Survey of Task Schedulers * Basic Concepts of Real-Time Operating Systems * * Mutexes Battle Priority Inversions * Architecture of Device I/O Drivers * Architecture of Safety Critical Systems'
      http://www.kalinskyassociates.com/EmbeddedResources.html

      Jungo - Evaluation Downloads

      Your evaluation versions of WinDriver and KernelDriver are fully operable for a 30 DAY PERIOD. You may use it to develop your custom driver. When your driver operates to your satisfaction, you may purchase the registered version.
      http://www.jungo.com/dnload.html

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