Defining tasks with #[task]

Tasks, defined with #[task], are the main mechanism of getting work done in RTIC.

Tasks can

• Be spawned (now or in the future)
• Receive messages (message passing)
• Prioritized allowing preemptive multitasking
• Optionally bind to a hardware interrupt

RTIC makes a distinction between “software tasks” and “hardware tasks”. Hardware tasks are tasks that are bound to a specific interrupt vector in the MCU while software tasks are not.

This means that if a hardware task is bound to an UART RX interrupt the task will run every time this interrupt triggers, usually when a character is received.

In the coming pages we will explore both tasks and the different options available.