[Tinyos Core WG] Unit of time in TOS2

[Martin Leopold]

Hi All.

Apart from this already making a WikiPedia standard - what is the
consensus - change the name or just update the documentation?

Looking at the names again it seems that the units aren't the same
either. T32kHz implies 1/s and TMilli implies well ~ms. So it might make
sense to keep the unit the same too.

And what about 32kHz - is it implicitly clear that this is 32768 Hz?

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 09:23 +0200, Vlado Handziski wrote:
> Who from you guys goes under the name  "Ingle" on wikipedia? This was
> added by him yesterday to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

Judging from the changes this user has made it could be one of the
MoteIV guys with a desire to play board games =].
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Ingle

> [[Embedded system|Embedded systems]], on the other hand, may perform
> timing operations as binary fractions of one second. This stems from
> the prevalance of microcontroller operating frequencies as even powers
> of two (such as 4 mebihertz) for deriving 2^-20 seconds and 32768 Hz
> [[Real-time clock|real-time clocks]] for deriving 2^-15 seconds and
> 2^-10 seconds. In this context, to avoid confusion with milliseconds
> and microseconds, some systems are adopting the informal prefixes
> "milbi" for 2^-10 and "micbi" for 2^-20 to uniquely describe the
> milbisecond and micbisecond.

The post offers alternative namings, which avert having to come up with
new standards - which was the problem in the first place:
   TkibiHz, TmebiHz

Of course this takes out the fun in arguing, over who was the first
human to use the term milbi =].

> I guess now it is official :)

Everyone believes WikiPedia =]

-- 
Regards Martin Leopold.
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
http://www.diku.dk/~leopold