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Lock (computer science)

Known as: Lock contention, Lock, Locking (computer science) 
In computer science, a lock or mutex (from mutual exclusion) is a synchronization mechanism for enforcing limits on access to a resource in an… 
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Time-to-Digital Converter for Frequency Synthesis Based on a Digital Bang-Bang DLL
This paper presents the design of a time-to-digital converter (TDC) suitable for a 3.5-GHz all-digital phase-lock loop (PLL). The… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
ISOLATOR: dynamically ensuring isolation in comcurrent programs
In this paper, we focus on concurrent programs that use locks to achieve isolation of data accessed by critical sections of code… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
A 1.8-GHz injection-locked quadrature CMOS VCO with low phase noise and high phase accuracy
Injection-locked quadrature voltage-controlled oscillators are introduced in this paper as high accuracy, low phase noise, and… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Offset phase locking of Er,Yb:glass laser eigenstates for RF photonics applications
An optical source of microwaves with very low phase noise for communications and radar systems is realized and tested. It is… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Jammin' on the Web - a new Client/Server Architecture for Multi-User Musical Performance
This paper describes a software system called the TransJam Server that allows several musicians to log into an Internet web site… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Metal-Ion Enhanced Helicity in the Gas Phase
Recent studies have shown that protonated polyalanine peptides (Alan+H) are not helical in the gas phase, 1,2 despite alanine’s… 
2000
2000
Efficiency enhancement of free electron Maser oscillator by mode selection with a prebunched electron beam
We present a method for enhancing the efficiency of a Free Electron Laser Maser oscillator by locking it to a preferred resonator… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Fuzzy Gaussian mixture models for speaker recognition
A fuzzy clustering based modification of Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) for speaker recognition is proposed. In this modification… 
Review
1980
Review
1980
Hydraulics of Flow and Sediment Transport in the Kankakee River in Illinois
The hydraulics of flow and sediment transport in the Kankakee River in Illinois were investigated in a 2-year study. The… 
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
Techniques of Process Control
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