MicroPython Projects

Cooperative scheduling

Cooperative scheduling is a technique that developers can leverage to achieve task periodicity without using a timer for every task. Cooperative schedulers are one of the most widely used schedulers throughout embedded system history. A quick look at any of the embedded.com embedded systems surveys will easily show that. 

A cooperative scheduler often uses a single timer to create a system tick that the scheduler then uses to determine whether the task code should be executed. The cooperative scheduler provides a perfect balance for developers who need periodicity, simplicity, flexibility, and scalability. They are also a stepping stone toward an RTOS.

So far, we have examined the methods that developers can use in ...