Amélioration de la gestion des périphériques d'un système embarqué

At CERN, experiments must gather huge amounts of data. The Data Acquisition System of the LHCb is therefore very large, and dedicated to this task. Hundreds of TELL1 boards provide the selection of relevant data and their transfer over a local area network in order to be saved. An embedded system, the Creditcard PC, allows physicists to monitor and program the TELL1 boards. This system runs a CERN release of the Linux operating system, and provides several libraries to handle the communication with the TELL1 board. Several users can work on the same TELL1 board simultaneously. This calls for process synchronization to control the access to the devices. Tests were made progressively, from some dedicated boards to a larger assembly, and then the solution has been distributed to the all TELL1 boards and to other boards using the Creditcard PC.