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USING A BOOT MONITOR IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Part 1ýConstructing the Platform
by Ed Sutter

Start ý The Typical Package ý What are the Alternatives? ý Key Ingredients ý MicroMonitor Run Time Startup ý Just After Reset ý Establish Exception Handlers ý I/O Initialization ý Flash Memory Drivers ý Sources and PDF

SOURCES and PDF

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Ed Sutter is a distiguished member of the technical staff at Lucent Technologies. He has been with Lucent, writing primarily embedded system firmware, since 1981. He graduated from the engineering program of DeVry and completed his Bachelorýs degree at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He can be reached at esutter@lucent.com.

SOFTWARE

The source code for the monitor is available from Lucentýs Research Software Distribution web site at http://www.bell-labs.com/topic/swdist/.

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