Hi,
Here I am introducing a simple task switching on an AVR as a demo... I did this just to get familiarized with the AVR assembly language programming.. Now I believe I learned it to an extent. Also I loves assembly language because it offers a great deal of power to use all of the features of the processor.
Introduction:
Video demo:
Working:
Here I am introducing a simple task switching on an AVR as a demo... I did this just to get familiarized with the AVR assembly language programming.. Now I believe I learned it to an extent. Also I loves assembly language because it offers a great deal of power to use all of the features of the processor.
Introduction:
Switching multiple tasks on a same CPU is the one of the major function of an operating system. What I did now is a time sharing multitasking (time multiplexing) on an AVR. Here an atmega32 is configured to use Round-Robin Multitasking. Round-Robin allows quasi-parallel execution of several tasks. Tasks are not really executed concurrently but are time-sliced (the available CPU time is divided into time slices).
Here, in my code below, it consist of 7 independent tasks and those are switched from one to another on a timer interrupt. 'May be' this could be considered as a simple & very very basic RTOS demo. Here I am mainly focusing on the core part ie the "task switching".
Scheduling algorithm used: Round-robin (RR)
(one of the simplest scheduling algorithm)
Scheduling algorithm used: Round-robin (RR)
(one of the simplest scheduling algorithm)
Video demo:
Each led on the demo represents a task. Task1 (right most led, WHITE) is a software PWM task. All other tasks (2 to 7 from right to left) are toggling tasks. If you concentrate on a single LED, U may notice that the particular LED is toggling with a constant delay and is independent of others.
Working:
Here, total RAM (2KB) is divided among 7 tasks almost equally in such a way that each one get around 300 bytes of RAM space... This 300 bytes is considered