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firmware _nop() in c#

I am porting part of firmware to a gui written in c#. I found out that

nop()

is a function that actually does nothing and delays the execution by some number of clock cycles.

Lets say if I use nop() it will delay the execution in firmware by two milliseconds. How do I delay things in c#?

Thanks in advance,

Solution

  • System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(milliseconds);

    Note that blocking your GUI's main thread for more than a few milliseconds is generally a bad idea. It may be better to use a timer that wakes up after a few milliseconds, to allow event-handling to happen in the meantime. Also, if you want to pause before doing some I/O, consider using asynchronous I/O instead.

    Also note that neither Windows or .NET provide any real-time guarantees. A call to Thread.Sleep(2) will pause for at least 2 milliseconds, but that thread may not resume execution for many milliseconds beyond that.