Segger has eliminated periodic tick interrupts in an RTOS, replacing the typically 1ms system tick with a single-shot hardware timer that generates interrupts when, and only when, necessary, it said. Dubbing the technique ‘cycle-resolution timing’, “scheduling of all time-based events, such as time-outs, delays and periodic timers, can now be specified in microseconds or CPU cycles”. It …
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