• kevincox@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      I’ve written these cycle-perfect sleep loops before.

      It gets really complicated if you want to account for time spent in interrupt handlers.

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        9 months ago

        Thankfully I didn’t need high precision realtime. I just needed to wait a few seconds for serial comm.

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          9 months ago

          Nah, some MCUs have low power modes.
          ESP32 has 5 of them, from disabling fancy features, throttling the clock, even delegating to an ultra low power coprocessor, or just going to sleep until a pin wakes it up again. It can go from 240mA to 150uA and still process things, or sleep for only 5uA.