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/**
  * Definitions for the MicroBit system timer.
  *
  * This module provides:
  *
  * 1) a concept of global system time since power up
  * 2) a simple periodic multiplexing API for the underlying mbed implementation.
  *
  * The latter is useful to avoid costs associated with multiple mbed Ticker instances
  * in microbit-dal components, as each incurs a significant additional RAM overhead (circa 80 bytes).
  */

#ifndef MICROBIT_SYSTEM_TIMER_H
#define MICROBIT_SYSTEM_TIMER_H

#include "mbed.h"
#include "MicroBitConfig.h"
#include "MicroBitComponent.h"

/**
  * Initialises a system wide timer, used to drive the various components used in the runtime.
  *
  * This must be called before any components register to receive periodic periodic callbacks.
  *
  * @param timer_period The initial period between interrupts, in millseconds.
  *
  * @return MICROBIT_OK on success.
  */
int system_timer_init(int period);

/**
  * Reconfigures the system wide timer to the given period in milliseconds.
  *
  * @param period the new period of the timer in milliseconds
  *
  * @return MICROBIT_OK on success. MICROBIT_INVALID_PARAMETER is returned if period < 1
  */
int system_timer_set_period(int period);

/**
  * Accessor to obtain the current tick period in milliseconds
  *
  * @return the current tick period in milliseconds
  */
int system_timer_get_period();

/**
  * Updates the current time in microseconds, since power on.
  *
  * If the mbed Timer hasn't been initialised, it will be initialised
  * on the first call to this function.
  */
inline void update_time();

/**
  * Determines the time since the device was powered on.
  *
  * @return the current time since power on in milliseconds
  */
uint64_t system_timer_current_time();

/**
  * Determines the time since the device was powered on.
  *
  * @return the current time since power on in microseconds
  */
uint64_t system_timer_current_time_us();

/**
  * Timer callback. Called from interrupt context, once per period.
  *
  * Simply checks to determine if any fibers blocked on the sleep queue need to be woken up
  * and made runnable.
  */
void system_timer_tick();

/**
  * Add a component to the array of system components. This component will then receive
  * periodic callbacks, once every tick period in interrupt context.
  *
  * @param component The component to add.
  *
  * @return MICROBIT_OK on success or MICROBIT_NO_RESOURCES if the component array is full.
  *
  * @code
  * // heap allocated - otherwise it will be paged out!
  * MicroBitDisplay* display = new MicroBitDisplay();
  *
  * system_timer_add_component(display);
  * @endcode
  */
int system_timer_add_component(MicroBitComponent *component);

/**
  * Remove a component from the array of system components. This component will no longer receive
  * periodic callbacks.
  *
  * @param component The component to remove.
  *
  * @return MICROBIT_OK on success or MICROBIT_INVALID_PARAMETER is returned if the given component has not been previously added.
  *
  * @code
  * // heap allocated - otherwise it will be paged out!
  * MicroBitDisplay* display = new MicroBitDisplay();
  *
  * system_timer_add_component(display);
  *
  * system_timer_remove_component(display);
  * @endcode
  */
int system_timer_remove_component(MicroBitComponent *component);

/**
  * A simple C/C++ wrapper to allow periodic callbacks to standard C functions transparently.
  */
class MicroBitSystemTimerCallback : MicroBitComponent
{
    void (*fn)(void);

    /**
     * Creates an object that receives periodic callbacks from the system timer,
     * and, in turn, calls a plain C function as provided as a parameter.
     *
     * @param function the function to invoke upon a systemTick.
     */
    public:
    MicroBitSystemTimerCallback(void (*function)(void))
    {
        fn = function;
        system_timer_add_component(this);
    }

    void systemTick()
    {
        fn();
    }
};

#endif