In a classic scenario of priority inversion, a binary semaphore is named 'PRNT' to symbolize that it is being used to regulate the access of tasks to a printer. It is initialized with a count of one ...

What is priority inheritance? Using a real-time operating system (RTOS) in an embedded design is an increasingly popular choice for system developers.

Priority inversion occurs when a lower-priority thread keeps a higher-priority thread from running for an unbounded amount of time. It's most easily avoided by augmenting the operating system with ...

With the advent of multithreaded/multicore CPUs, even embedded real-time applications are starting to run on SMP systems—for example, both the Xbox 360 and PS/3 are multithreaded, and there even have ...