Mutexes and semaphores are provided by most current RTOSs, although they can be implemented on bare-metal systems as well. Their use is considered a best practice among experienced firmware engineers, ...

ThreadX provides 32-bit counting semaphores with counts that range in value from 0 to 2 32 1, or 4,294,967,295 (inclusive). There are two operations that affect the values of counting semaphores: ...