ChibiOS/os/io/io.dox

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/*
ChibiOS/RT - Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Giovanni Di Sirio.
This file is part of ChibiOS/RT.
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*/
/**
* @defgroup IO I/O
* @brief I/O related services.
* @details This section contains the I/O related services.
*
* The I/O subsystem is a collection of device driver portable interfaces and
* platform dependent implementations.<br>
* Under ChibiOS/RT a device driver is 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:
* - @<driver@>.c, the high level implementation file. This file must be
* included in the Makefile in order to use the driver.
* - @<driver@>.h, the high level header file. This file must be included
* by the application code in order to access the driver's APIs.
* .
* - 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:
* - @<driver@>_lld.c, the low level implementation file. This file must be
* included in the Makefile in order to use the driver.
* - @<driver@>_lld.h, the high level header file. This file is implicitly
* included by the HLD header file.
* .
* .
* <h2>Available Device Drivers</h2>
* The I/O subsystem currently includes support for:
* - @ref PAL.
* - @ref SERIAL.
* .
*/
/**
* @defgroup PAL Ports Abstraction Layer (PAL)
* @brief I/O Ports Abstraction Layer
* @details This module defines an abstract interface for digital I/O ports.
* Note that most I/O ports functions are just macros. The macros
* have default software implementations that can be redefined in a
* @ref PAL_LLD if the target hardware supports special features like, as
* example, atomic bit set/reset/masking. Please refer to the ports specific
* documentation for details.<br>
* The @ref PAL has the advantage to make the access to the I/O ports platform
* independent and still be optimized for the specific architectures.<br>
* Note that the @ref PAL_LLD may also offer non standard macro and functions
* in order to support specific features but, of course, the use of such
* interfaces would not be portable. Such interfaces shall be marked with
* the architecture name inside the function names.
*
* <h2>Implementation Rules</h2>
* In implementing an @ref PAL_LLD there are some rules/behaviors that
* should be respected.
*
* <h3>Writing on input pads</h3>
* The behavior is not specified but there are implementations better than
* others, this is the list of possible implementations, preferred options
* are on top:
* -# The written value is not actually output but latched, should the pads
* be reprogrammed as outputs the value would be in effect.
* -# The write operation is ignored.
* -# The write operation has side effects, as example disabling/enabling
* pull up/down resistors or changing the pad direction. This scenario is
* discouraged, please try to avoid this scenario.
* .
* <h3>Reading from output pads</h3>
* The behavior is not specified but there are implementations better than
* others, this is the list of possible implementations, preferred options
* are on top:
* -# The actual pads states are read (not the output latch).
* -# The output latch value is read (regardless of the actual pads states).
* -# Unspecified, please try to avoid this scenario.
* .
* <h3>Writing unused or unimplemented port bits</h3>
* The behavior is not specified.
*
* <h3>Reading from unused or unimplemented port bits</h3>
* The behavior is not specified.
*
* <h3>Reading or writing on pins associated to other functionalities</h3>
* The behavior is not specified.
*
* <h2>Usage</h2>
* The use of I/O ports requires the inclusion of the header file @p pal.h,
* this file is not automatically included @p ch.h like the other header
* files.
*
* @ingroup IO
*/
/**
* @defgroup PAL_LLD PAL Low Level Driver
* @brief @ref PAL low level driver template.
* @details This file is a template for an I/O port low level driver.
*
* @ingroup PAL
*/
/**
* @defgroup SERIAL Serial Driver
* @brief Generic Serial Drivers.
* @details This module implements a generic full duplex serial driver. The
* driver implements a @p SerialDriver interface and uses I/O Queues for
* communication between the upper and the lower driver. Event flags are used
* to notify the application about incoming data, outgoing data and other I/O
* events.<br>
* The module also contains functions that make the implementation of the
* interrupt service routines much easier.<br>
*
* @ingroup IO
*/
/**
* @defgroup SERIAL_LLD Serial Low Level Driver
* @brief @ref SERIAL low level driver template.
* @details This file is a template for a serial low level driver.
*
* @ingroup SERIAL
*/