Opensource ML embedded evaluation kit

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2021 Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+#ifndef PLATFORM_HAL_H
+#define PLATFORM_HAL_H
+
+/**
+ * This file should present a C API for the main application logic to use
+ * and be indifferent to the lower level platform. In addition to this it
+ * will also need to be aware of the API exposed by data acquisition and
+ * data presentation modules.
+ */
+#include "hal_config.h"
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+#include "data_acq.h"                   /* Data acquisition abstraction */
+#include "data_psn.h"                   /* Data presentation abstraction */
+#include "timer.h"                      /* Timer/profiler API */
+
+/* Structure to define a platform context to be used by the application */
+typedef struct hal_platform_context {
+    int inited;                         /**< initialised */
+    char plat_name[16];                 /**< name of this platform */
+    data_acq_module * data_acq;         /**< data acquisition module pointer */
+    data_psn_module * data_psn;         /**< data presentation module pointer */
+    platform_timer *  timer;            /**< timer */
+    int (* platform_init)();            /**< pointer to platform initialisation function */
+    void (* platform_release)();        /**< pointer to platform release function */
+} hal_platform;
+
+/**
+ * @brief           Initialise the HAL structure based on compile time config. This
+ *                  should be called before any other function in this API.
+ * @param[in,out]   platform    Pointer to a pre-allocated platform struct.
+ * @param[in,out]   data_acq    Pointer to a pre-allocated data acquisition module.
+ * @param[in,out]   data_psn    Pointer to a pre-allocated data presentation module.
+ * @param[in,out]   timer       Pointer to a pre-allocated timer module.
+ * @return          0 if successful, error code otherwise.
+ **/
+int hal_init(hal_platform *platform, data_acq_module *data_acq,
+    data_psn_module *data_psn, platform_timer *timer);
+
+
+/**
+ * @brief       Initialise the HAL platform. This will go and initialise all the
+ *              modules on the platform the application requires to run.
+ * @param[in]   platform    Pointer to a pre-allocated and initialised
+ *                          platform structure.
+ * @return      0 if successful, error code otherwise.
+ **/
+int hal_platform_init(hal_platform *platform);
+
+
+/**
+ * @brief       Release the HAL platform. This should release resources acquired.
+ * @param[in]   platform    pointer to a pre-allocated and initialised
+ *                          platform structure.
+ **/
+void hal_platform_release(hal_platform *platform);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* PLATFORM_HAL_H */