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Chapter 7. Peripherals ................................................................................................................................... 93
7.1 Control and Status Registers ...........................................................................................................93
7.2 The Device Driver Philosophy ........................................................................................................ 94
7.3 A Simple Timer Driver ....................................................................................................................97
7.4 Das Blinkenlights, Revisited ......................................................................................................... 107
Chapter 8. Operating Systems..................................................................................................................... 109
8.1 History and Purpose ...................................................................................................................... 109
8.2 A Decent Embedded Operating System ........................................................................................ 110
8.3 Real-Time Characteristics ............................................................................................................. 130
8.4 Selection Process........................................................................................................................... 131
Chapter 9. Putting It All Together ............................................................................................................... 134
9.1 Application Overview ...................................................................................................................134
9.2 Flashing the LED ..........................................................................................................................136
9.3 Printing "Hello, World!"................................................................................................................ 141
9.4 Working with Serial Ports ............................................................................................................. 142
9.5 The Zilog 85230 Serial Controller ................................................................................................ 149
Chapter 10. Optimizing Your Code............................................................................................................. 151
10.1 Increasing Code Efficiency ......................................................................................................... 151
10.2 Decreasing Code Size.................................................................................................................. 154
10.3 Reducing Memory Usage............................................................................................................ 156
10.4 Limiting the Impact of C++ ........................................................................................................ 157
Appendix A. Arcom's Target188EB ............................................................................................................160
Glossary.......................................................................................................................................................161
A.......................................................................................................................................................... 161
B .......................................................................................................................................................... 162
C .......................................................................................................................................................... 162
D.......................................................................................................................................................... 164
E ..........................................................................................................................................................166
F ..........................................................................................................................................................167
G.......................................................................................................................................................... 167
H.......................................................................................................................................................... 167
I ........................................................................................................................................................... 168
L ..........................................................................................................................................................170
M ......................................................................................................................................................... 170
N.......................................................................................................................................................... 172
O.......................................................................................................................................................... 172
P ..........................................................................................................................................................173
R .......................................................................................................................................................... 176
S ..........................................................................................................................................................178
T ..........................................................................................................................................................180
V.......................................................................................................................................................... 180
W......................................................................................................................................................... 181
Bibliography................................................................................................................................................ 182
12.1 Books........................................................................................................................................... 182
