Intro
Objectives
- Understand how hardware, firmware
and an operating system are required to run applications (4.1.3)
- Understand the role of the bootloader
- Describe the role and operation of
interrupts including
(4.1.4):
- How an interrupt is generated
- How it is handled using an interrupt service routine
- What happens as a result of the interrupts
- Be able to describe examples of software and hardware interrupts (4.1.3)