Tag Archives: synchronization

Software Design and time synchronization

Posted on November 14, 2009 by admin

I have a blog post up at fsmlabs.com about our TimeKeeper software for time synchronization. TimeKeeper is currently aimed at financial trading markets, but we also hope to market it to electric power  distribution and transmission engineers who have a … Continue reading →

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RTOS design and embedded system development

Posted on July 15, 2009 by admin

Real-time operating systems are either a solved problem or a backwater of engineering design. Threads, semaphores, mutexes, some basic I/O, priority scheduling all of this has been more or less standardized in the  POSIX 1003.13 smaller profiles (51,52) for many … Continue reading →

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Updated: meaning of concurrent programs

Posted on June 4, 2008 by admin

Updated rough draft available with thrilling descriptions of atomic compare and swap and some comments on “formal methods”. Bonus photo

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