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Introduction to RTOS Part 8 - Software Timers | DigiKey

In embedded systems, timers offer the ability to delay a call to a function, periodically call a function, or control some peripheral without the need for CPU intervention. In FreeRTOS, a software timer is controlled by a timer service task and can be used to execute a function some time in the future based on the RTOS tick timer.

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