/ChNil

Arduino AVR ChibiOS/Nil Library

Primary LanguageC++

ChNil - ChibiOS/Nil Arduino Library

I am starting a new repository since this version is not backward compatible with the NilRTOS library.

https://github.com/greiman/NilRTOS-Arduino

ChNil is a tiny RTOS library for AVR Arduino boards.

The base code for ChNil was written by Giovanni Di Sirio, the author of ChibiOS/Nil and ChibiOS/RT.

http://www.chibios.org/dokuwiki/doku.php

The code is Nil version 2.0.0 from Stable Version 17.6 of ChibiOS.

The API is considerably different than the original version of Nil. It is now very much like ChibiOS/RT.

If you are installing from GitHub repo zips, rename the folder ChNil before copying it to your Arduino/libraries folder.

Please read ChNil.html for more information. See the Examples section of the html documentation.

Start with the ChNilBlink example which is traditional for almost every RTOS.

ChibiOS/Nil now has event flags, mailboxes, memory pools and other new features. Try the examples that illustrate these features.

I have added chAnalogRead(), a version of analogRead() that sleeps while the AVR ADC is busy.

You can check stack use with chFillStacks(), chPrintStackSizes(), and chPrintUnusedStack().

chTimer1Start(), chTimer1Wait(), and chTimer1Stop() allow a thread to run at microsecond intervals. See the ChNilSdLogger.ino for an example.

ChNilSerial is a very small unbuffered replacement for Arduino Serial.

The TwiMaster library, in the extras folder, is a I2C library that sleeps while an I2C transfer takes place.