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RT-Thread是发展中的下一代微内核嵌入式实时操作系统

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/**
 * @mainpage Introduction
 * @author RT-Thread Development Team
 * @version 0.2.2
 *
 * RT-Thread is an open source RTOS and is designed specifically for small 
 * memory footprint platforms. The real-time and embedded characters are the 
 * most significant advantages of RT-Thread.
 *
 * - Real-Time Character
 *
 * RT-Thread is a real-time operating system kernel, with fully preempted 
 * multi-thread scheduler, inter-thread communication with timing sensitivity 
 * and transparent interrupt handling.
 *
 * - Embedded Character
 *
 * RT-Thread is suitable for embedded systems for small footprint characters. 
 * The kernel is implemented as a simple C library. The simplest application 
 * costs less than 8 Kbytes on the ARM7TDMI platform.
 *
 * @section kernel_arch Kernel Architecture
 * 
 * RT-Thread kernel 0.2.2 is a \c mono kernel, or \c macro kernel actually. Current 
 * system architecture is like:
 * @image html System_Arch.png "Figure 1: Mono Kernel System Architecture"
 * @image rtf  System_Arch.png "Figure 1: Mono Kernel System Architecture"
 *
 * The \c micro kernel of RT-Thread is under construction, the new architecture will
 * have an appearance like:
 * @image html uKernel_Arch.png "Figure 2: Micro Kernel System Architecture"
 * @image rtf  uKernel_Arch.png "Figure 2: Micro Kernel System Architecture"
 *
 * @section kernel_service Kernel API
 *
 * The Kernel APIs are the core APIs of RT-Thread, which supports the following
 * features:
 * - Multi-thread management and scheduler
 * - Synchronization mechanisms, semaphore and mutex
 * - Inter-thread communication, event/fast event, mailbox and message queue
 * - Memory management, memory pool and heap memory management
 * - Asynchronous timer
 *
 * For more details, please refer to @ref Kernel
 *
 * @section system_init System Initialization
 *
 * Once RT-Thread operating system starts up, the facility in system must be initialized 
 * firstly.
 *
 * For more details, please refer to @ref SystemInit
 */