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| author | danicampora <daniel@wipy.io> | 2015-10-14 12:32:01 +0200 |
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| committer | danicampora <daniel@wipy.io> | 2015-10-17 23:29:04 +0200 |
| commit | 4542643025c77a7272bde348b89d5039aea28d23 (patch) | |
| tree | bf9fb006f46b96d2ea9ecf4aa190c4e4cc2abfc8 /docs/library/time.rst | |
| parent | fca3308cc376f2c1c66fa3cef82e30c55c9acca2 (diff) | |
docs: Update all WiPy docs to reflect the new API.
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diff --git a/docs/library/time.rst b/docs/library/time.rst index 8af8e37ba..0dc18afb4 100644 --- a/docs/library/time.rst +++ b/docs/library/time.rst @@ -44,6 +44,46 @@ Functions Sleep for the given number of seconds. +.. only:: port_wipy + + .. function:: sleep_ms(ms) + + Delay for given number of milliseconds, should be positive or 0. + + .. function:: sleep_us(us) + + Delay for given number of microseconds, should be positive or 0 + + .. function:: ticks_ms() + + Returns an increasing millisecond counter with arbitrary reference point, + that wraps after some (unspecified) value. The value should be treated as + opaque, suitable for use only with ticks_diff(). + + .. function:: ticks_us() + + Just like ``ticks_ms`` above, but in microseconds. + + .. function:: ticks_cpu() + + Similar to ``ticks_ms`` and ``ticks_us``, but with higher resolution (usually CPU clocks). + + .. function:: ticks_diff(old, new) + + Measure period between consecutive calls to ticks_ms(), ticks_us(), or ticks_cpu(). + The value returned by these functions may wrap around at any time, so directly + subtracting them is not supported. ticks_diff() should be used instead. "old" value should + actually precede "new" value in time, or result is undefined. This function should not be + used to measure arbitrarily long periods of time (because ticks_*() functions wrap around + and usually would have short period). The expected usage pattern is implementing event + polling with timeout:: + + # Wait for GPIO pin to be asserted, but at most 500us + start = time.ticks_us() + while pin.value() == 0: + if time.ticks_diff(start, time.ticks_us()) > 500: + raise TimeoutError + .. function:: time() Returns the number of seconds, as an integer, since 1/1/2000. |
