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8 years, 11 months ago.
MBED Asynchronous APIs
Hello,
According to following link Async APIs can "allow me to set up a transfer, send it to the peripheral for execution, and get a callback when the transfer is finished. This way, i can do something else, such as more number crunching, or even go to sleep......."
https://developer.mbed.org/teams/SiliconLabs/wiki/Using-the-mbed-asynchronous-APIs
Hmm very nice.... Let's try... First updated to mbed library version 100, even though async api's were already introduced in version 98.
Then I found the sample application for Sserial communication: https://developer.mbed.org/teams/SiliconLabs/code/Serial-LowPower-Demo/file/f911d11682f3/main.cpp
Since I can't find any way to use "LowPowerTicker" i change line 50 to "Ticker" and removed line 43,45,46 and 47, cos I got error message (At that moment I sensed that the async api's are not compatible with my platform NUCLEO F401RE??)..And later on while compiling I got errors from lines 91, 94 and 105...
So, shortly, why can't I use async serial api functions, especially;
Quote:
int read (uint8_t *buffer, int length, const event_callback_t &callback, int event=SERIAL_EVENT_RX_COMPLETE, unsigned char char_match=SERIAL_RESERVED_CHAR_MATCH) Begin asynchronous reading using 8bit buffer. int read (uint16_t *buffer, int length, const event_callback_t &callback, int event=SERIAL_EVENT_RX_COMPLETE, unsigned char char_match=SERIAL_RESERVED_CHAR_MATCH) Begin asynchronous reading using 16bit buffer.
int write (uint8_t *buffer, int length, const event_callback_t &callback, int event=SERIAL_EVENT_TX_COMPLETE) Begin asynchronous write using 8bit buffer. int write (uint16_t *buffer, int length, const event_callback_t &callback, int event=SERIAL_EVENT_TX_COMPLETE) Begin asynchronous write using 16bit buffer.
If I can, can you give some example codes?
Regards...
1 Answer
8 years, 11 months ago.
Async APIs are currently not yet available for anything except SiliconLabs boards. In the meantime what should work for your board to have async serial: https://developer.mbed.org/users/sam_grove/code/BufferedSerial/