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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HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer or rather Hardware Annotation Library) is a software subsystem for UNIX-like operating systems providing hardware abstraction...

multiple software or hardware platforms. It can make an application less dependent on any one specific operating system. OS abstraction layers deal with presenting...

management, security and process management. The kernel sits between the hardware abstraction layer and the Executive to provide multiprocessor synchronization...

In software engineering and computer science, abstraction is the process of generalizing concrete details, such as attributes, away from the study of...

Operating Systems) is a nanokernel hardware abstraction layer (HAL), or hypervisor, that operates between computer hardware and the operating system (OS) that...

Hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers as complete hardware platforms, certain logical abstractions of their componentry, or only...

Foundation 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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systems. Operating systems generally present hardware resources to applications through high-level abstractions such as (virtual) file systems. The idea behind...

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...

also send data as a serial stream, the term serial port usually denotes hardware compliant with RS-232 or a related standard, such as RS-485 or RS-422....

device, firmware may provide relatively low-level control as well as hardware abstraction services to higher-level software such as an operating system. Firmware...

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...

the raw hardware, providing no hardware abstractions on top of which to develop applications. This separation of hardware protection from hardware management...

provides services designed for a heterogeneous computer cluster such as hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly used functionality...

known as RAVE (Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine) provided a hardware abstraction layer with functionality similar to Direct3D or cut-down versions...

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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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...

the behavior and structure of digital systems at multiple levels of abstraction, ranging from the system level down to that of logic gates, for design...

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software development library designed to provide a hardware abstraction layer for computer multimedia hardware components. Software developers can use it to...

operating system for low-end devices – and support for implementing a hardware abstraction layer. As of January 2025, Android Oreo (which has ceased receiving...

implement register-transfer level abstraction, a model of the data flow and timing of a circuit. There are two major hardware description languages: VHDL and...

layers of the Microsoft Windows NT kernel, and is responsible for hardware abstraction, process handling, and memory management. In addition to the kernel...

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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...