In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, JonnyMac wrote:

[i]Credit where it's due: Peter Verkaik suggested this trick in the beta forum.[/i]

A task gets called on a regular schedule but what if we want asymmetric output/behavior from the task? -- we can do it with [b]TASKS SUSPEND[/b]:

[code]TASK FLASH_LED
  Led1 = ~Led1                                  ' toggle LED
  IF Led1 = IsOn THEN
    TASKS SUSPEND, 0, 19                        ' on time is 20 ticks
  ELSE
    TASKS SUSPEND, 0, 79                        ' off time is 80 ticks
  ENDIF
  ENDTASK[/code]
If this task is called every 10ms then the LED on-time will be 200ms and the off-time 800ms.  It takes one task tick to process the LED so the suspension value is decremented by one (I have verified this on a 'scope).

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