Timers

Tick Timing#

Basic timing, there is nothing much to it. We just need a couple of functions for basic timing. If you are familiar with tick based timing in another RTOS, it's exactly the same.

tickType ts, milliseconds_spent;

ts = xTaskGetTickCount();

< do stuff >

milliseconds_spent = (xTaskGetTickCount() - ts) / portTICK_RATE_MS;

Hardware Timers with Interrupts#