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Published inNov 2023
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Gian Marco Iodice
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Gian Marco Iodice

Gian Marco Iodice is team and tech lead in the Machine Learning Group at Arm, who co-created the Arm Compute Library in 2017. The Arm Compute Library is currently the most performant library for ML on Arm, and it's deployed on billions of devices worldwide – from servers to smartphones. Gian Marco holds an MSc degree, with honors, in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy) and has several years of experience developing ML and computer vision algorithms on edge devices. Now, he's leading the ML performance optimization on Arm Mali GPUs. In 2020, Gian Marco cofounded the TinyML UK meetup group to encourage knowledge-sharing, educate, and inspire the next generation of ML developers on tiny and power-efficient devices.
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Using interrupts to read the push-button state

The previous recipe showed how to read digital signals with the GPIO peripheral. However, the proposed solution is inefficient because the CPU wastes clock cycles waiting for the button to be pressed while it could perform other tasks in the meantime. Furthermore, this could be a situation where we would keep the CPU in low-power mode when there are no other tasks to run.

Therefore, this recipe will show you how to change the sketch developed in the previous recipe to read the push-button state efficiently using interrupts.

Getting ready

Let’s prepare this recipe by learning what an interrupt is and which Mbed OS API we can use to read the push-button efficiently.

Working with interrupts using the Mbed OS API

An interrupt is a signal that temporarily pauses the main program to address an event through a dedicated function known as an interrupt handler or interrupt service routine (ISR). When the ISR ends the...

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Published in: Nov 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837637362

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Gian Marco Iodice

Gian Marco Iodice is team and tech lead in the Machine Learning Group at Arm, who co-created the Arm Compute Library in 2017. The Arm Compute Library is currently the most performant library for ML on Arm, and it's deployed on billions of devices worldwide – from servers to smartphones. Gian Marco holds an MSc degree, with honors, in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy) and has several years of experience developing ML and computer vision algorithms on edge devices. Now, he's leading the ML performance optimization on Arm Mali GPUs. In 2020, Gian Marco cofounded the TinyML UK meetup group to encourage knowledge-sharing, educate, and inspire the next generation of ML developers on tiny and power-efficient devices.
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