RTOS terminology

Before dive in the exciting world of real-time operating systems, we need to understand the basic terminology. What is latency? The time elasped between a demand issued on a computer system and the begining of a response to the same demand is called latency or response time. Kinds of latencies: Interrupt Latency: The time elapsed

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Riot-OS: tutorial to use command handlers and multi threading

This another tutorial of how using command handlers and multithreading. In short, we have a thread that listens for messages and prints the pid and the content value. To send the message we use a shell script by using the command handle mechanism. The code looks like: In order to compile the code, you should

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