High precision timing within Microsoft Windows: Threads, scheduling and system interrupts

Microprocessors and Microsystems

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 297-307

  Johnson, A P ^a   Macauley, M W S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interrupts; Real time; Scheduler; Threads; Timing; Windows operating system

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER HARDWARE; MULTITASKING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

THREAD SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISMS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035840322     PISSN: 01419331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-9331(01)00122-3     Document Type: Article

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