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WOB
2004
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14 years 1 months ago
An I/O Device Driver for Bioinformatics Tools: the case for BLAST
There are many bioinformatics tools that deal with input/ output (I/O) issues by using filing systems from the most common operating systems, such as Linux or MS Windows. However, ...
Renato Mauro, Sérgio Lifschitz
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluating Block-level Optimization Through the IO Path
This paper focuses on evaluation of the effectiveness of optimization at various layers of the IO path, such as the file system, the device driver scheduler, and the disk drive i...
Alma Riska, James Larkby-Lahet, Erik Riedel
EMSOFT
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Verification of device drivers and intelligent controllers: a case study
The soundness of device drivers generally cannot be verified in isolation, but has to take into account the reactions of the hardware devices. In critical embedded systems, interf...
David Monniaux
DATE
2003
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Evaluation of Applying SpecC to the Integrated Design Method of Device Driver and Device
We are investigating an integrated design method for a device driver and a device in order to efficiently develop device drivers used in embedded systems. This paper evaluates wh...
Shinya Honda, Hiroaki Takada
SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A sledgehammer approach to reuse of legacy device drivers
Device drivers account for the majority of an operating system’s code base, and reuse of the existing driver infrastructure is a pragmatic requirement of any new OS project. New...
Joshua LeVasseur, Volkmar Uhlig
HASE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Fuzzing Wi-Fi Drivers to Locate Security Vulnerabilities
Wireless LANs (WLAN) are becoming ubiquitous, as more and more consumer electronic equipments start to support them. This creates new security concerns, since hackers no longer ne...
Manuel Mendonça, Nuno Ferreira Neves
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Failure Resilience for Device Drivers
Studies have shown that device drivers and extensions contain 3–7 times more bugs than other operating system code and thus are more likely to fail. Therefore, we present a fail...
Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Ho...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Unit Testing of Flash Memory Device Driver through a SAT-Based Model Checker
Flash memory has become virtually indispensable in most mobile devices. In order for mobile devices to successfully provide services to users, it is essential that flash memory b...
Moonzoo Kim, Yunho Kim, Hotae Kim
ICST
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Pre-testing Flash Device Driver through Model Checking Techniques
Flash memory has become virtually indispensable in most mobile devices, such as mobile phones, digital cameras, mp3 players, etc. In order for mobile devices to successfully provi...
Moonzoo Kim, Yunja Choi, Yunho Kim, Hotae Kim
DATE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Correct-by-construction generation of device drivers based on RTL testbenches
Abstract—The generation of device drivers is a very time consuming and error prone activity. All the strategies proposed up to now to simplify this operation require a manual, ev...
Nicola Bombieri, Franco Fummi, Graziano Pravadelli...