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| pcTimerName | A human readable text name that is assigned to the timer. This is done purely to assist debugging. The RTOS kernel itself only ever references a timer by its handle, and never by its name. |
| xTimerPeriod | The period of the timer. The period is specified in ticks, and the macro pdMS_TO_TICKS() can be used to convert a time specified in milliseconds to a time specified in ticks. For example, if the timer must expire after 100 ticks, then simply set xTimerPeriod to 100. Alternatively, if the timer must expire after 500ms, then set xTimerPeriod to pdMS_TO_TICKS( 500 ). pdMS_TO_TICKS() can only be used if configTICK_RATE_HZ is less than or equal to 1000. |
| uxAutoReload | If uxAutoReload is set to pdTRUE, then the timer will expire repeatedly with a frequency set by the xTimerPeriod parameter. If uxAutoReload is set to pdFALSE, then the timer will be a one-shot and enter the dormant state after it expires. |
| pvTimerID | An identifier that is assigned to the timer being created. Typically this would be used in the timer callback function to identify which timer expired when the same callback function is assigned to more than one timer, or together with the vTimerSetTimerID() and pvTimerGetTimerID() API functions to save a value between calls to the timer's callback function. |
| pxCallbackFunction |
The function to call when the timer expires. Callback functions must
have the prototype defined by TimerCallbackFunction_t, which is:
void vCallbackFunction( TimerHandle_t xTimer );. |
- Returns:
- If the timer is created successfully then a handle to the newly created timer is returned. If the timer cannot be created because either there is insufficient FreeRTOS heap remaining to allocate the timer structures, or the timer period was set to 0, then NULL is returned.
Example usage:
#define NUM_TIMERS 5
/* An array to hold handles to the created timers. */
TimerHandle_t xTimers[ NUM_TIMERS ];
/* Define a callback function that will be used by multiple timer
instances. The callback function does nothing but count the number
of times the associated timer expires, and stop the timer once the
timer has expired 10 times. The count is saved as the ID of the
timer. */
void vTimerCallback( TimerHandle_t xTimer )
{
const uint32_t ulMaxExpiryCountBeforeStopping = 10;
uint32_t ulCount;
/* Optionally do something if the pxTimer parameter is NULL. */
configASSERT( pxTimer );
/* The number of times this timer has expired is saved as the
timer's ID. Obtain the count. */
ulCount = ( uint32_t ) pvTimerGetTimerID( xTimer );
/* Increment the count, then test to see if the timer has expired
ulMaxExpiryCountBeforeStopping yet. */
ulCount++;
/* If the timer has expired 10 times then stop it from running. */
if( ulCount >= ulMaxExpiryCountBeforeStopping )
{
/* Do not use a block time if calling a timer API function
from a timer callback function, as doing so could cause a
deadlock! */
xTimerStop( pxTimer, 0 );
}
else
{
/* Store the incremented count back into the timer's ID field
so it can be read back again the next time this software timer
expires. */
vTimerSetTimerID( xTimer, ( void * ) ulCount );
}
}
void main( void )
{
long x;
/* Create then start some timers. Starting the timers before
the RTOS scheduler has been started means the timers will start
running immediately that the RTOS scheduler starts. */
for( x = 0; x < NUM_TIMERS; x++ )
{
xTimers[ x ] = xTimerCreate
( /* Just a text name, not used by the RTOS
kernel. */
"Timer",
/* The timer period in ticks, must be
greater than 0. */
( 100 * x ) + 100,
/* The timers will auto-reload themselves
when they expire. */
pdTRUE,
/* The ID is used to store a count of the
number of times the timer has expired, which
is initialised to 0. */
( void * ) 0,
/* Each timer calls the same callback when
it expires. */
vTimerCallback
);
if( xTimers[ x ] == NULL )
{
/* The timer was not created. */
}
else
{
/* Start the timer. No block time is specified, and
even if one was it would be ignored because the RTOS
scheduler has not yet been started. */
if( xTimerStart( xTimers[ x ], 0 ) != pdPASS )
{
/* The timer could not be set into the Active
state. */
}
}
}
/* ...
Create tasks here.
... */
/* Starting the RTOS scheduler will start the timers running
as they have already been set into the active state. */
vTaskStartScheduler();
/* Should not reach here. */
for( ;; );
}
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