Glossary

A D M S T

A

Application - A type of module. Applications have 1 task, multiple threads and an address space.

D

Driver - A driver is a type of module containing code to control specific hardware.

M

Module - Any native executeable code.

S

Scheduler - The piece of code that controls which software gets cpu time and how much. This is built in to time services.
System Module - A type of module. Very similar to a driver but not directly controlling hardware. Mostly used for the OS services and debuggers.

T

Task - As defined by Intel.
Thread - A smaller form of task. In PowerMax any task can consist of multiple threads.