= Embassy

Embassy is a project to make async/await a first-class option for embedded development.

== Traits and types

`embassy` provides a set of traits and types specifically designed for `async` usage.

* `embassy::io`: `AsyncBufRead`, `AsyncWrite`. Traits for byte-stream IO, essentially `no_std` compatible versions of `futures::io`.
* `embassy::traits::flash`: Flash device trait.
* `embassy::time`: `Clock` and `Alarm` traits. Std-like `Duration` and `Instant`.
* More traits for SPI, I2C, UART async HAL coming soon.

== Executor

The `embassy::executor` module provides an async/await executor designed for embedded usage.

* No `alloc`, no heap needed. Task futures are statically allocated.
* No "fixed capacity" data structures, executor works with 1 or 1000 tasks without needing config/tuning.
* Integrated timer queue: sleeping is easy, just do `Timer::after(Duration::from_secs(1)).await;`.
* No busy-loop polling: CPU sleeps when there's no work to do, using interrupts or `WFE/SEV`.
* Efficient polling: a wake will only poll the woken task, not all of them.
* Fair: a task can't monopolize CPU time even if it's constantly being woken. All other tasks get a chance to run before a given task gets polled for the second time.
* Creating multiple executor instances is supported, to run tasks with multiple priority levels. This allows higher-priority tasks to preempt lower-priority tasks.