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Tiny Threads - Tiny Multitasking Threads for Microcontrollers

For the efficiency and performance conscious C programmers, here is my tiny cooperative multitasking engine.

This was made for PIC16F micros that has a very small available flash for code and ram/memory. But this can be used also for other processors because I tried to make it ANSI compliant. For the PIC16F processor, this uses only 1 byte RAM needed per thread and compiles to a very small overhead context switching.

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 at 10:31 am and is filed under AVR, Multitasking, RTOS, ARM, C, PIC, Software, Code. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Tiny Threads - Tiny Multitasking Threads for Microcontrollers”

  1. The Cebuano Geek » Blog Archive » Billiard Shot Clock/Timer | Embedded Systems, Programming, Electronics and Robotics Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 10:08 am

    […] This is a 45 second countdown timer to limit the player’s time on each shot. This uses Tiny Threads as its multitasking engine for the display and button debouncing. The full schematics and source […]

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