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Wait
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OS delay
When you call wait the CPU of your mbed will be busy spinning in a loop waiting for the required time to pass.
Using the mbed RTOS you can make a call to Thread::wait instead. In this way the OS scheduler will put the current thread in waiting state and it will allow another thread to execute, or even better, if there are not other threads in ready state, it can put the whole microcontroller to sleep saving energy.
Implementation
The timer used to implement this functionality is:
- On the LPC1768:
Timer 3 (LPC_TIM3) - On the LPC11U24:
32-bit Counter/Timer B1 (LPC_CT32B1)