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Main application
The main transponder application initializes the RF ICs and handles all interrupts from the GPS UART and the RF IC clock/data lines. It also utilizes a few timers, one of which represents SOTDMA time slots and is continuously aligned with the PPS signal from the GPS.
Unlike many examples we see online, the microcontroller runs in both thread and interrupt mode. After hardware initialization, main() enters an infinite loop dispatching events and keeping the watchdog timer happy. Interrupt code (which is sprinkled throughout) performs as little work as possible and queues up events for non-real time operations to be processed in thread mode. There is no operating system (I could never justify the overhead) so this is a very lean approximation of one.
Almost all memory is managed using pre-allocated pools of objects.
The Standard Peripheral Library for stm32f3xx is included.