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The Definitive Guide to the ARM Cortex-M0
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The Definitive Guide to the ARM Cortex-M0

by Joseph Yiu
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
12h 18m
English
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Chapter 10. Operating System Support Features

Overview of the OS Support Features

The Cortex-M0 processor includes a number of features that target the embedded operating system (OS). These include the following:
A SysTick timer. This 24-bit down counter can be used to generate a SysTick exception at regular intervals.
A second stack pointer called the process stack pointer. This feature allows the stack of the applications and the OS kernel to be separated.
An SVC exception and SVC instruction. Applications use the SVC to access OS services via the exception mechanism.
A PendSV exception. The PendSV can be used by an OS, device drivers, or the application to generate service requests that can be deferred.
This chapter describes each of these ...
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