[Tinyos-help] Resource arbitration between CC2420 and Uart0 on Telosb

[Philip Levis]

On Jun 30, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Kirak, Hong wrote:

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> And in addition, why the CC2420 releases the resource between send()  
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Holding the bus during MAC backoff is wasteful. Other operations could  
use the bus at that time. It also prevents the MCU from powering down.

Phil