Automated development tools for linux USB drivers

Author

Lin, Kuan Jen ; Lin, Tsung, Jr.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Fu Jen Catholic Univ., Hsinchuang, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

7-10 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

USB devices are widely used in consumer electronics. Writing device drivers has always been a tedious and error-prone job. This paper presents assisting tools for developing USB drivers under Linux OS. The tool kit includes (1) a generic-skeleton generator that can automatically generate generic USB driver code skeleton according to user-specified configuration, (2) a flattened-HID-driver generator that can merge stacked HID drivers to a monolithic driver and prune C codes to reduce size and response time for embedded applications, and (3) an ECP (Extended C Preprocessor) compiler that provides type-checking capability for low-level I/O operation and makes the driver code more readable.

Keywords

C language; Linux; consumer electronics; device drivers; peripheral interfaces; program compilers; software tools; C codes; ECP compiler; Linux OS; USB; code generation; consumer electronics; development tools; extended C preprocessor; flattened-HID-driver generator; generic skeleton generator; user-specified configuration; writing device drivers; Consumer electronics; Domain specific languages; Driver circuits; Hardware; Linux; Operating systems; Programming profession; Skeleton; Universal Serial Bus; Writing; Device driver; USB; code generation; development tool; domain-specific language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (ISCE), 2010 IEEE 14th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Braunschweig

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6671-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCE.2010.5523719

Filename

5523719