NRF52 and timing - actual state and what functions to use? #nrf52-pca10040
Martin Kozusky
Hi,
I understand that there are some problems because of 32768Hz RTC with NRF52832 as referenced here: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/issues/9904 , there are some already merged PRs (like https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/pull/16782 ) and some waiting to merge, so what is the actual state at 2.1.0? I want to ask: 1 - what is the best solution to call my function every 1ms (or will it be 1.007ms?), is it ok just to use k_timer? Is "next expiration time" calculated just by adding period to current time (that would make a big time diff after many calls) or does it use k_uptime_get*number of expirations to calculate next expiration time? 2 - what is the best solution for most precise long-term time keeping? Let's say i don't want more that 1 minute diff in 20 days. Can I just use k_uptime_get? I would like to make my HW design without aditional external RTC, which can be almost as expensive as another NRF52832 - is it even possible somehow? Or do you have any tip for some cheap low-power RTC? 3 - would using external 16MHz/32MHz (or another frequency) oscilator solve anything? 4 - as someone already wrote here: https://lists.zephyrproject.org/g/users/topic/28021125 would it be possible to use timer peripheral (with external osc.) to generate better timing (as I would normaly do with bare-metal sources)? Thanks.
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