July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
16h 52m
English
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Glossary 485
Read-only memory A memory with fixed contents (Section 4.2.3).
Real time A system that must perform operations by a certain time (Section 1.1).
Real-time operating system An operating system designed to be able to satisfy real-time
constraints (Introduction of Chapter 6).
Re-entrancy The ability of a program to be executed multiple times, using the same memory
image without error.
Refresh Restoring the values kept in a DRAM (Section 4.2.2).
Register Generally, an electronic component that holds state. In the context of computer pro-
gramming, storage internal to the CPU that is part of the programming model (Section 2.1.1).
Register allocation ...