Synchronization

Synchronization is the coordination of events to operate a system in unison.

Description

The familiar conductor of an orchestra serves to keep the orchestra in time.

Systems operating with all their parts in synchrony are said to be synchronous or in sync; those which are not are asynchronous.

Today, synchronization can occur on a global basis through the GPS-enabled timekeeping systems (and similar independent systems operated by the EU and Russia).

See also

• Asynchrony
• Atomic clock
• Clock synchronization
• Data synchronization
• Double-ended synchronization
• Einstein synchronization
• Entrainment
• File synchronization
• Flywheel
• Homochronous
• Kuramoto model
• Mutual exclusion
• Neural synchronization
• Phase-locked loops
• Phase synchronization
• Reciprocal socialization
• Synchronism
• Synchronization (alternating current)
• Synchronization in telecommunications
• Synchronization of chaos
• Synchronization rights
• Synchronizer
• Synchronous conferencing
• Time
• Timing Synchronization Function (TSF)
• Time transfer
• Timecode
• Tuning fork

Order synchronization and related topics

• Comparison of synchronous and asynchronous signalling
• Concurrency control
• Interlocking
• Race condition
• Rendezvous problem
• Room synchronization

Video and audio engineering

• Genlock
• Jam sync
• Word sync

Aircraft gun engineering

• Synchronization gear

Compare with

• Synchronicity, an alternative organizing principle to causality

External links

• Synchronization @ Wikipedia