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@ -11,15 +11,17 @@ Embassy is a project to make async/await a first-class option for embedded devel
- `embassy::time`: `Clock` and `Alarm` traits. Std-like `Duration` and `Instant`.
- More traits for SPI, I2C, UART async HAL coming soon.
## Executor with timers
## Executor
The `embassy::executor` module provides an async/await executor based on [static-executor](https://github.com/Dirbaio/static-executor).
The `embassy::executor` module provides an async/await executor designed for embedded usage.
- No `alloc`, no heap needed. Task futures are statically allocated.
- Integrated timer queue allows simple sleeping: `Timer::after(Duration::from_ticks(64000)).await;`.
- Suitable for low-power operation. Using interrupts or `WFE/SEV` ensures the CPU sleeps when there's no work to do. No busy-loop polling.
- No "fixed capacity" data structures, executor works with 1 or 1000 tasks without needing config/tuning.
- Integrated timer queue: sleeping is easy, just do `Timer::after(Duration::from_secs(1)).await;`.
- No busy-loop polling: CPU sleeps when there's no work to do, using interrupts or `WFE/SEV`.
- Efficient polling: a wake will only poll the woken task, not all of them.
- Fair: a task can't monopolize CPU time even if it's constantly being woken. All other tasks get a chance to run before a given task gets polled for the second time.
- Creating multiple executor instances is supported, to run tasks with multiple priority levels. This allows higher-priority tasks to preempt lower-priority tasks.
- Compatible with RTIC (example coming soon).
## Utils
@ -54,9 +56,7 @@ cargo run --bin rtc_async
## Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV)
`rustc 1.48.0-nightly (1fd5b9d51 2020-09-20)`
Any recent nightly should work. Nightly is required for:
Only recent nighly supported. Nightly is required for:
- `generic_associated_types`: for trait funcs returning futures.
- `type_alias_impl_trait`: for trait funcs returning futures implemented with `async{}` blocks, and for `static-executor`.