General-purpose prototyping platforms are built and distributed by silicon manufacturers to evaluate microcontrollers and peripherals, so part of the software development may be often performed on these devices even before the design of the final product begins.
The software that can be run on the evaluation board is usually distributed as reference implementation, in the form of source code or proprietary precompiled libraries. These libraries can be configured and adapted for the final target, so they can be used as reference hardware abstraction from the beginning, and their settings updated to match changes in the hardware configuration.
On our reference target, the support for the hardware components of a generic ...
