Glossary
A/D (or A-D): Analog-to-digital converter. An integrated circuit (IC) or subsystem that translates a voltage to a digital word.
Assembler: A language that directly describes machine instructions such as move data to a register, jump to an address, add two registers, and so on. Each microprocessor has a unique machine language, and therefore a unique assembler language.
Blocked: In an application using a real-time kernel, a task is said to be blocked if it cannot run because it is awaiting some event. The event could be a particular interrupt, a specific time delay, or availability of a particular resource.
Breakpoint: A condition that causes the central processing unit (CPU) to execute a software interrupt when a particular address ...
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