Hello,
Both topic will be covered more in details in the up coming AN for which I still do not have committed date but that should be available soon on the website.
Regarding the advantages of using the Scheduler versus Freertos, the answer is that these are completely different as the scheduler is not an OS.
The Scheduler is an optimized packaging of a standard basic bare metal implementation of a while(1){} loop. It is optimized in the sense that it implements critical section surrounding the test of pending requests and the entry in low power mode. These critical section which are often missing in bare metal implementation lead to system instability when the system enters low power mode ( especially stop mode)
As the scheduler is a basic bare metal implementation, it does not implement context switching.
If you need the capability to interrupt a running task with another higher priority one, then you will need to select an OS as the scheduler will not do the job.
If you were planning to implement a basic while(1){} loop in the background, then I would strongly recommend to use the provided scheduler although this is not mandatory and could be replaced by your own implementation.
For the time being, you may find some brief description of the API in the file scheduler.h
Regards.
