• Hardware abstractions are sets of routines in software that provide programs with access to hardware resources through programming interfaces. The programming...
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  • computing, an abstraction layer or abstraction level is a way of hiding the working details of a subsystem. Examples of software models that use layers of abstraction...
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  • multiple software or hardware platforms. It can make an application less dependent on any one specific operating system. OS abstraction layers deal with presenting...
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  • HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer or rather Hardware Annotation Library) is a software subsystem for UNIX-like operating systems providing hardware abstraction...
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    security and process management. The kernel sits between the hardware abstraction layer and the Executive to provide multiprocessor synchronization, thread...
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  • models to enable multiple hardware architectures through a data-parallel language, a set of library APIs, and a low-level hardware interface to support cross-architecture...
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  • and define an I/O abstraction layer using the virtual instrument software architecture (VISA). The VISA hardware abstraction layer provides an interface-independent...
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    DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform software development library designed to provide a hardware abstraction layer for computer multimedia hardware components...
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  • Dell Networking have written their own Hardware Abstraction Layer so that DNOS 9.x can run on different hardware platforms with minimal impact for the...
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  • developers at Force10 have written their own Hardware Abstraction Layer so that FTOS can run on different hardware platforms with minimal impact for the firmware...
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    newer, do not allow user-mode programs to have direct hardware access using a hardware abstraction layer. As a result, as of 2008, CIH has become essentially...
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  • and data Abstraction layer, an application of abstraction in computing Hardware abstraction, an abstraction layer on top of hardware Abstraction (linguistics)...
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  • Operating Systems) is a nanokernel hardware abstraction layer (HAL), or hypervisor, that operates between computer hardware and the operating system (OS) that...
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  • classic rock station in Halifax, Nova Scotia Hardware abstraction layer, a layer of software that hides hardware differences from higher level programs HAL...
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  • dependency of most Win32 libraries used by programs. The Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) is implemented in hal.dll. The HAL implements a number of...
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  • (software) Hardware abstraction layer Machine-dependent software Programmable logic Ecker, Wolfgang; Müller, Wolfgang; Dömer, Rainer, eds. (2009). Hardware-dependent...
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    operating system for low-end devices – and support for implementing a hardware abstraction layer. As of June 2025, Android Oreo (which has ceased receiving security...
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    Android Automotive uses the Vehicle Hardware Abstraction Layer (VHAL), which serves as a bridge between the vehicle's hardware and software components. The operating...
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  • An initial idea was to have a common code base with a custom Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for each platform. However, support for MIPS, Alpha, and...
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  • prompted by several major changes. Primarily, a new layer known as HAL (Hardware Abstraction layer) was introduced to interconnect functions easily without...
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    important. This interface is normally done by a device driver or hardware abstraction layer. Frequently, applications will require access to these devices...
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  • methods. On these systems the idle thread will call routines in the Hardware Abstraction Layer to reduce CPU clock speed or to implement other power-saving mechanisms...
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  • In software engineering and computer science, abstraction is the process of generalizing concrete details, such as attributes, away from the study of...
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  • support multiple platforms, Messiah Engine uses a hardware abstraction layer composed of three layers: algorithm, translation, and device driver. The engine...
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  • separated into two layers. A lower level system known as RAVE (Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine) provided a hardware abstraction layer with functionality...
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    generation, and other uses. Hardware abstraction layer extension – RTX / RTX64 relies on a Windows hardware abstraction layer (HAL) extension to initialize...
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  • rendering output onto a display device. It provides a platform (hardware abstraction layer) to run high-level system software and application software.[citation...
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    parts: an Adeos-based patch to the Linux kernel which introduces a hardware abstraction layer, and a broad variety of services which make lives of real-time...
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    user interface Timeline of programming languages Hardware description language Hardware abstraction layer Computer architecture, how computers are designed...
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    code base: HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) greatly simplified and modularized the code base by introducing and confining low-level hardware implementation...
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