Hi Erik,

The OP's question, specifically by virtue of the subject, is the "concept" of multi-threading. On that point there is nothing to wait for.

By the way, I agree with you, that the OP is probably thinking PC instead of 805x. And for a true multitasking GUI environment, one where programs are "event" driven instead of
"sequence" driven, multiple processors running multi-threaded programs are an elegant approch. This, of course, assumes you are running an operating system capable of utilizing multiple processors (WinNT instead of WIN9x).

But to extend the concept to embedded systems would be to design a multi-processor system. Otherwise you're just time-sharing, allocating cycles. And even then you aren't really multi-threading. You're just running separate programs on separate processors at the same time.

Now what we do need to wait for is to find out whether the OP actually needs a multi-thread solution, or if it will be sufficient to show them that temperature is such a high capacity process that such an approach is really unnecessary.