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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2004
Applicants:
Judy M. Gehman, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Matthew D. Kirkwood, West St. Paul, MN (US);
Steven M. Emerson, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Inventors:
Judy M. Gehman, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Matthew D. Kirkwood, West St. Paul, MN (US);
Steven M. Emerson, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Assignee:
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A reusable software block is adapted to control multiple instantiations of a peripheral device within a system. A device hardware abstraction layer defines offset values for registers of the peripheral device and a data structure for the peripheral device. A platform hardware abstraction layer defines an address map of the system, and is adapted to initialize each instantiation of the peripheral device via calls to the device hardware abstraction layer.