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This patch adds support for rtimer library on Galileo's platform. We use the PIT to implement the rtimer platform dependent functionalities. We chose the PIT for mainly two reason: I) its configuration is very simple II) it has a high frequency which provides us a good clock resolution (requirement from rtimer library). Since we keep track of the number of ticks in software, we define rtimer_clock_t type as uint64_t. This gives us a good amount of time til the variable overflows. For instance, a 32-bit type would overflow in about one hour for high clock resolution (~ 1us). The rtimer clock frequency (RTIMER_ARCH_SECOND) is setup to 1 kHz. There is no technical matter regarding this value. It is just an initial guess. Just for the record, we might want to use HPET in future to implement the rtimer library since it seems to be more appropriate. The reason why we don't use it at this moment is that, in order to configure it, we need support for ACPI 2.0 which we don't. Once we have use-cases for the rtimer library we'll probably replace PIT by HPET or any other timer more suitable for the job. |
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The Contiki Operating System
Contiki is an open source operating system that runs on tiny low-power microcontrollers and makes it possible to develop applications that make efficient use of the hardware while providing standardized low-power wireless communication for a range of hardware platforms.
Contiki is used in numerous commercial and non-commercial systems, such as city sound monitoring, street lights, networked electrical power meters, industrial monitoring, radiation monitoring, construction site monitoring, alarm systems, remote house monitoring, and so on.
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