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You don't need an OS to do more advanced or efficient sleeping. You could have one of the timer peripherals generate an interrupt on a regular basis, and then p

by lochsh 6y ago

You don't need an OS to do more advanced or efficient sleeping. You could have one of the timer peripherals generate an interrupt on a regular basis, and then put the chip in a lower power sleep mode in between interrupts.

saagarjha 6y ago
Isn't that what an OS would do, essentially?
- lochsh 6y ago
  Yes, probably! But you can do it yourself without one. Here is an example in C using libopencm3, that uses timers to trigger an interrupt used to flash LEDs https://github.com/libopencm3/libopencm3-examples/tree/master/examples/stm32/f4/stm32f4-discovery/timer https://github.com/libopencm3/libopencm3-examples/tree/maste...
  - dmitrygr 6y ago
    that is basically a mini-os :)
    - foldr 6y ago
      You can set up a wakeup interrupt using a timer by moving a few values into a few registers. It doesn't require anything like an OS. Even tiny 8-bit microcontrollers can do this.
- als0 6y ago
  Sure, but putting the chip to sleep is one instruction, and programming the timer interval is only about a dozen instructions. So you don't really need an OS in this context.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
  There is a blurry line on the edges of "library" and "OS"; most people would put this particular example on the "library" side.