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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2013
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Yaron Weinsberg, Jerusalem, IL;
Jinsong Yu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Maxim Grabarnik, Mevaseret Tzion, IL;
Davide Massarenti, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Automatically generating code used with device drivers for interfacing with hardware. The method includes receiving a machine readable description of a hardware device, including at least one of hardware registers or shared memory structures of the hardware device. The method further includes determining an operating system with which the hardware device is to be used. The method further includes processing the machine readable description on a code generation tool to automatically generate code for a hardware driver for the hardware device specific to the determined operating system.