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API Interface</h1>
<p>An <a class="el" href="pdsc_apis_pg.html">API</a> is a special form of a software component that only defines a C/C++ Application Programming Interface (API). An API does not contain the actual implementation (usually provided by source code or library files) and cannot be selected in a development tool. One example is the CMSIS-RTOS API, which is specified as part of CMSIS. However, the actual RTOS implementati