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/*
ChibiOS/RT - Copyright (C) 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,
2011,2012,2013 Giovanni Di Sirio.
This file is part of ChibiOS/RT.
ChibiOS/RT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
ChibiOS/RT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
---
A special exception to the GPL can be applied should you wish to distribute
a combined work that includes ChibiOS/RT, without being obliged to provide
the source code for any proprietary components. See the file exception.txt
for full details of how and when the exception can be applied.
*/
/**
* @defgroup IO HAL
* @brief Hardware Abstraction Layer.
* @details Under ChibiOS/RT the set of the various device driver interfaces
* is called the HAL subsystem: Hardware Abstraction Layer. The HAL is the
* abstract interface between ChibiOS/RT application and hardware.
*
* @section hal_device_driver_arch HAL Device Drivers Architecture
* A device driver is usually split in two layers:
* - High Level Device Driver (<b>HLD</b>). This layer contains the definitions
* of the driver's APIs and the platform independent part of the driver.<br>
* An HLD is composed by two files:
* - @p @<driver@>.c, the HLD implementation file. This file must be
* included in the Makefile in order to use the driver.
* - @p @<driver@>.h, the HLD header file. This file is implicitly
* included by the HAL header file @p hal.h.
* .
* - Low Level Device Driver (<b>LLD</b>). This layer contains the platform
* dependent part of the driver.<br>
* A LLD is composed by two files:
* - @p @<driver@>_lld.c, the LLD implementation file. This file must be
* included in the Makefile in order to use the driver.
* - @p @<driver@>_lld.h, the LLD header file. This file is implicitly
* included by the HLD header file.
* .
* The LLD may be not present in those drivers that do not access the
* hardware directly but through other device drivers, as example the
* MMC_SPI driver uses the SPI and PAL drivers in order to implement
* its functionalities.
* .
* @subsection hal_device_driver_diagram Diagram
* @dot
digraph example {
graph [size="5, 7", pad="1.5, 0"];
node [shape=rectangle, fontname=Helvetica, fontsize=8,
fixedsize="true", width="2.0", height="0.4"];
edge [fontname=Helvetica, fontsize=8];
app [label="Application"];
hld [label="High Level Driver"];
lld [label="Low Level Driver"];
hw [label="Microcontroller Hardware"];
hal_lld [label="HAL shared low level code"];
app->hld;
hld->lld;
lld-> hw;
lld->hal_lld;
hal_lld->hw;
}
* @enddot
*/
/**
* @defgroup HAL_CONF Configuration
* @brief HAL Configuration.
* @details The file @p halconf.h contains the high level settings for all
* the drivers supported by the HAL. The low level, platform dependent,
* settings are contained in the @p mcuconf.h file instead and are describe
* in the various platforms reference manuals.
*
* @ingroup IO
*/