Freescale Semiconductor Microcontrollers Inspector Alarm

Real Time Kernel Awareness
OSEK Kernel Awareness
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•Current Value: displays the current value of the system timer.
•Activated Alarm: displays associated alarms.
Inspector Alarm
The Alarm shown in Figure 5.6 displays the current state of OSEK alarm trace.
Figure 5.6 Inspector Alarm
Select Alarm in the hierarchical tree on the left side to display additional information
concerning the alarm on the right side of the window under the following headings:
•Name: displays the name of the alarm.
•Alarm State: displays the current state of the alarm. Possible values are
ALARMRUN and ALARMSTOP.
•Assigned Counter: based on counters, the OSEK OS offers an alarm mechanism for
the application software. Assigned Counter is the name of the counter used by the
alarm.
•Notified Task: alarm management allows the user to link task activation to a certain
counter value, assign an alarm to a counter, and define the action to be performed
when an alarm expires. Notified Task defines the task to be notified (by activation or
event setting) when the alarm expires.
•Event to Set: alarm management allows the user to link event setting to a certain
counter value, assign an alarm to a counter, and define the action to be performed
when an alarm expires. Event to set specifies the event mask to be set when the alarm
expires.
•Time to expire: displays time remaining before the time expires and the event is set.
•Cycle period: displays period of a tick.