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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alion Science and Technology, headquartered in McLean, Va., has been awarded the $769M Joint Capability Embedded Technology Insertion and Integration (JCETII) task order, ...