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Published inApr 2022
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John Madieu
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John Madieu is an embedded Linux and kernel engineer living in Paris, France. His main activities consist of developing device drivers and Board Support Packages (BSPs) for companies in domains such as IoT, automation, transport, healthcare, energy, and the military. John is the founder and chief consultant at LABCSMART, a company that provides training and services for embedded Linux and Linux kernel engineering. He is an open source and embedded systems enthusiast, convinced that it is only by sharing knowledge that we can learn more. He is passionate about boxing, which he practiced for 6 years professionally, and continues to channel this passion through training sessions that he provides voluntarily.
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Writing user-space IIO applications

After the long journey through the kernel-side implementation, it might be interesting to have a look at the other side, the user space. IIO support in user space can be handled through sysfs or using libiio, a library that has been specially developed for this purpose and follows the kernel-side evolutions. This library abstracts the hardware's low-level details and provides an easy and comprehensive programming interface that can also be used for complex projects.

In this section, we will be using version 0.21 of the library, whose documentation can be found here: https://analogdevicesinc.github.io/libiio/v0.21/libiio/index.html.

libiio can run on the following:

  • A target, that is, the embedded system running Linux that includes IIO drivers for devices that are physically connected to the system, such as ADCs and DACs.
  • A remote computer connected to the embedded system through a network, USB, or serial connection. This remote...
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Linux Device Driver Development - Second Edition
Published in: Apr 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803240060

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John Madieu

John Madieu is an embedded Linux and kernel engineer living in Paris, France. His main activities consist of developing device drivers and Board Support Packages (BSPs) for companies in domains such as IoT, automation, transport, healthcare, energy, and the military. John is the founder and chief consultant at LABCSMART, a company that provides training and services for embedded Linux and Linux kernel engineering. He is an open source and embedded systems enthusiast, convinced that it is only by sharing knowledge that we can learn more. He is passionate about boxing, which he practiced for 6 years professionally, and continues to channel this passion through training sessions that he provides voluntarily.
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