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3 Kernel
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3.1 Overview
The role of the demonstration kernel is mainly to provide a generic platform that control and
monitor all the application processes, the kernel provides a set of friendly user APIs and
services that allow to the user modules to have access to all the hardware and firmware
resources and provide the following tasks and services:
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Hardware and modules initialization:
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BSP initialization (LEDs, SDRAM, Touch screen, CRC, SRAM, RTC, QSPI and
audio)
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GUI initialization and Touch screen calibration
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Memory management
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Kernel log
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Graphical resources and main menu management.
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Storage managements (USB Disk flash and microSD)
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System monitoring and settings
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Time and date resources management
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File browsing and contextual menu
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CPU utilities (CPU usage, running tasks)
Figure 3. Kernel components and services
