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2016-2017 University Catalog 
  
2016-2017 University Catalog

ECE 446 - Device Driver Development

Credits: 3
Limited to 2 Attempts
Offered by Electrical and Computer Engineering  
Addresses device driver and kernel level software programming and development. The C programming language and program trouble shooting are reviewed. Basics of device driver software, Character driver operations and data structures, concurrency and race conditions, kernel timers, memory allocation, communications with hardware, interrupt handling, kernel data types, memory mapping and Direct Memory Access concepts are explored.

Prerequisite(s): C or better in ECE 445.
Prerequisite(s) enforced by registration system.

Schedule Type: LEC
Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0
When Offered: Fall