The problem with desynchronizing your code by moving parts of it into different tasks is that many of the resources your software wants to use—certain hardware, data structures in memory, files—can’t ...

View the slideshow demonstrates in seven steps the process of switching from a lower priority task, called TaskA, to a higher priority task, called TaskB. These slides demonstrate the concepts ...

In previous articles, we have looked at the multi-tasking model and we have seen that each task is a quasi-independent program. Although tasks in an embedded application have a degree of independence, ...

A plethora of task synchronization mechanisms is out there, from mutexes to messaging systems. From an RTOS perspective, no difference exists between them with respect to synchronization issues, such ...