Answer by Digikata for How to achieve multitasking in a microcontroller?
There are some really good answers here, but just a little more context regarding your birthday card example might be a good lead in before digging in with the longer answers.The way a single cpu can...
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I have had good experiences with Freertos, even though it uses a fair bit of memory. Freertos gives you true preemptive threading, there's tons of ports if you ever want to upgrade those dusty old...
View ArticleAnswer by shelleybutterfly for How to achieve multitasking in a microcontroller?
Well, I see a lot of ground covered by other answers; so, hopefully I don't end up turning this into something bigger than I intend. (TL;DR: Girl to the rescue! :D). But, I do have (what I believe to...
View ArticleAnswer by RBerteig for How to achieve multitasking in a microcontroller?
The answers by Zack and SF. nicely cover the big picture. But sometimes a working example is valuable.While I could glibly suggest browsing the source kit to the Linux kernel (which is both open source...
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While SF provides an excellent overview of multitasking there is also some additional hardware most microcontrollers have that let them do things simultaneously.Illusion of simultaneous execution -...
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First, what's with this sequential execution. There's just one core, one program space, one counter. The MPU executes one instruction at a time and then moves to another, in sequence. In this system...
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I wrote a program for a wrist watch utilizing a 8051 micro-controller using Embedded (C). There are a total of 6 7-segment displays as such: _______________________ | | | | two 7-segments for showing...
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