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 ...

I am interested in learning about programming with threads. I have heard it is a powerful, but often dangerous, addition to programs. I've studied about semaphores and locks and critical sections when ...

A thread of execution is a set of instructions that are managed by a scheduler. If you make a new thread separate from your program’s main thread, a new independent execution flow will be added to ...