Building Block View

This chapter explains the building blocks of the WordClock system, and its decomposition in sub-system.

White box of the WordClock

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NameResponsibility
Applicationprovides the high-level system behavior.
Platform abstractiondecouples the Application implementation from the platform specific hardware.
Platformcontains all the hardware specific features.
Real Time Clockis the hardware component responsible to keep track of the time when the system is powered off.
Led Matrixis the hardware component used as display.

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