What is a critical section in embedded software programs?

Critical Section is a set of instructions that must be atomic for system to work properly. Several techniques are used to ensure that a piece of code is atomic, some of which are semaphore, mutex etc.

July 1, 2008 | Filed Under Embedded 

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