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Writing Device Drivers for a Microcontroller(any)

I am very enthusiastic in writing device drivers for a microcontroller(like PIC, Atmel etc).

I am a newbie in this controller-coding-area.

Is writing device drivers for a controller the same as we write for linux( or any other OS)?

Solution

  • If you are thinking about developing the device drivers to interface your device with a host computer (probably using USB), then most of the microcontrollers nowadays implement default classes that rely on native drivers.

    A concrete example:

    If you use a PIC18F4555, you can use the regular HID (human interface device) windows driver to communicate with your microcontroller (given you implemented it correctly). No need to develop any driver.