08 / MCU · Core
MCAL & peripherals
Connect hardware registers, initialization and driver behaviour.
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A peripheral API cannot compensate for a missing clock, incorrect pin mux or unavailable hardware state.
18 min · Animated walkthrough · Knowledge checkRegister access and read-modify-write
A familiar C operator can be wrong for a hardware register with special write semantics.
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