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Books for OS The Symbian OS Architecture Sourcebook Smartphone Operating System Concepts with Symbian OS Symbian OS Internals Real time Kernel Programming Symbian Symbian was the first platform specifically developed for smartphones. It started the smartphone revolution and remains at the heart of the movement, powering more than two-fifths of the world’s smartphones. The Symbian platform is used by more people in more places than any other mobile OS, making Symbian the most popular smartphone platform on the planet. However, the future of Symbian is not optimistic. Those new smartphone OSes that derive from main stream OSes such as Windows, Linux push very hard on it. Symbian Features Real-time Suitable for resource-constrained environments. Modular: consisting of microkernel and user-side servers Robust against badly written user code Real-Time Preemptive scheduling: Threads with Priorities OS calls to be preemptible Latency ≤ 1 ms from interrupt to user thread Latency ≤ 500 μs from interrupt to kernel thread Fast mutex operations Priority-order waiting on semaphores and mutexes Timers with a finer resolution. Resource-Constrained Type ‘N’ classes cost less resources in kernel NThread, NFastMutex DLLs are better not to contain static data Cleanup stack mechanism causes programs release resources as soon as possible. Modular / Symbian OS overview Robust Symbian constructs a robust execution environment for applications, each isolated from the others with its own protected memory space. Application code executes in user mode with limitations and kernel code uses supervisor mode with fewer limitations, but even kernel code is still constrained by its virtual memory map. The combination of a robust service request mechanism and a service provider guaranteed to be unique within the system was designed to make the client-server mechanism suitable for providing centralized and controlled access to system resources. Basics Symbian OS is intended to