USART, FreeRTOS and C++ on nRF51

Now that we have set up the programming environment the next thing I personally like to implement on any microcontroller is a simple UART communication. Since it is really simple to do using nRF51 SDK, I thought of explaining how to implement USART and FreeRTOS in C++. Even though C is a very capable language on its own I feel restricted without OOP, I know some people might disagree but personally OOP enables me to structure my code better and is easier to pick it up after couple months of idle time. Nonetheless, this article won’t cover FreeRTOS in details; it is expected from you to know more or less what is an RTOS and what is it capable of. Also I prefer not to use printf/scanf whenever I can in embedded projects due to its large memory footprint. Since we will have the luxury of C++ we will implement a similar “Serial” library to Arduino. Honestly serial library is one of the things people behind Arduino got right.

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