An RTOS-friendly Serial interface Its primary benefit is that it never hogs the CPU. An amusing alternative to the traditional ring-bufferd interrupt-serviced systems, it uses short mbed-rtos queues to buffer characters to and from the UART, and a thread to service the transmitter. Short interrupt service routines enqueue received characters and signal the transmit thread when the transmitter is available. WARNING: Do not create RTOS-Serial objects before the RTOS is running! Put them inside your main() block or another function, not in the global initialization.

Dependents:   Test_RDM880_rfid_reader

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Tom Soulanille
+ *
+ * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+ * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+ * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+ * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+ * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+ * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+ *
+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+ * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ *
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+ * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+ * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+ * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+ * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+ * SOFTWARE.
+ */
+
+#include "rtos_serial.h"
+
+//RTOS_Serial::tx_mail_t blah;
+
+RTOS_Serial::RTOS_Serial(PinName tx, PinName rx, const char *name)
+ : Serial(tx, rx, name)
+{
+    const PinName leds[] = {LED1,LED2,LED3,LED4};
+    ledp = new DigitalOut(leds[get_index()]);
+    tx_emitter_threadp = new Thread(tx_emitter, (void *) this);
+};
+
+Thread* RTOS_Serial::tx_tp[4] = { NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL };
+
+serial_t RTOS_Serial::get_serial() { return _serial; };
+
+int  RTOS_Serial::get_index() { return _serial.index; }
+
+int RTOS_Serial::putc(int c) {
+    //return Serial::putc(c);
+    //if (tx_q.put((int *)c, osWaitForever) == osOK) return c; else return EOF;
+    int status;
+    if ( (status = tx_q.put((int *)c, osWaitForever)) == osOK) return c; else {
+        std::printf("tx_q.put() returned %d\r\n", status);
+        return EOF;
+    }
+}   
+
+int RTOS_Serial::parent_putc(int c) {
+    return Serial::putc(c);
+}
+
+// class method
+void RTOS_Serial::UART0_TX_ISR(){
+    uint32_t IRR = LPC_UART0->IIR;
+    //tx_emitter_threadp->signal_set(0x1);
+    tx_tp[0]->signal_set(0x01);
+}
+
+// tx_emitter is a class method
+void RTOS_Serial::tx_emitter(void const *argument){
+    RTOS_Serial *sp = (RTOS_Serial *) argument;
+    osEvent evt;
+    while(true){
+#if 0
+        *(sp->ledp) = 0;
+        osDelay(200);
+        *(sp->ledp) = 1;
+        osDelay(200);
+#endif        
+#if 1
+        evt = sp->tx_q.get();
+        if (evt.status == osEventMessage) {
+            //Thread::signal_wait(0x1);
+            *(sp->ledp) = 1;
+            sp->parent_putc(evt.value.v);
+            *(sp->ledp) = 0;
+        } else {
+            std::printf("tx_emitter() evt.status %d\n", evt.status);
+        }
+#endif
+        *(sp->ledp) = 0;
+    }
+}
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