The semaphore flags used by Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS Victory to signal his fleet before the battle of Trafalgar (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In days gone by, people relied ...

Take advantage of the Mutex class to synchronize threads in different processes and the Semaphore class to limit the number of threads that can access a shared resource. Thread synchronization is used ...

I was in class today and the professor was giving examples of systems with semaphores, and he kept using examples where the semaphore calls were properly nested. So I asked him if it was necessary for ...

This two-part series addresses the use and misuse of two of the most essential synchronization primitives in modern embedded systems, the mutex (this part) and the semaphore (part 2). Mutexes and ...

Semaphore, semafor, just what's a sema for? We look into what semaphores are and what they mean to Sea of Thieves players. Sea of Thieves has a lot of good things going for it, with players being ...

Due to their high bandwidth and message access flexibility, dual-port SRAMs are used to link multiple high-performance processors and systems. IDT makes dual-port SRAMs in many configurations, all of ...

Different tasks in an embedded system typically must share the same hardware and software resources or may rely on each other in order to function correctly. For these reasons, embedded OSs provide ...