Chapter 10
OS Support Features
Abstract
This chapter covers the features on the ARM® Cortex®-M3 and Cortex-M4 processors which are designed to make Operating Systems more efficient. This include the banked stack pointer, SVC and PendSV exceptions, exclusive accesses. Simple context switching operations are also demonstrated.
Keywords
OS; Stack Pointer; MSP; PSP; SVC; PendSV; Context switching; exclusive access; task; unprivileged
Chapter Outline
10.1 Overview of OS support features
The Cortex®-M processors are designed with OS support in mind. Currently there are over ...
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