Nucleus SE initialization and start-up
Abstract
When a microprocessor starts up, a number of actions need to be completed before application code may be executed. This chapter reviews in detail the initialization process or Nucleus SE, and then considers application code initialization and starting the scheduler.
Keywords
RTOS; Nucleus; initialization; start-up
For any kind of operating system (OS), there is some type of start-up mechanism. Exactly how this works varies from one system to another. It is usual to say that an OS will “boot.” This is an abbreviation for “bootstrap,” which is a description of how a CPU gets from having a memory full of nothing in particular to a stable program execution state. Classically, a small piece of software ...
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