Activity Directions: In this project students will design, implement, and evaluate a computing-based solution to meet a given set of computing requirements. Students will demonstrate the ability to create and manage processes and threads.They will create two processes, Producer and Consumer, using the C functions below:

void producer() {

int i;

while(1){

i = produce();

put(i);

}

}

void consumer() {

int i;

while(1){

i = get();

consume(i);

}

}

The Producer is simply creating numbers, which are passed to the Consumer in a static buffer. The students task is to implement the put() and get() functions. Each function will use a buffer (implemented as a word). The objective is to ensure that the producer is always ahead of the consumer and the consumer does not have to wait.

A simple implementation of the produce() and consume() functions is:

int theProduct;

int produce(){

return theProduct++;

}

void consume(int i){

printf(%i, i);

}

Note: Do not use semaphores or other synchronization mechanisms. Rely on threads instead (include the pthread.h library). You may use sleep and wakeup commands.

Deliverables:

1. An explanation of your approach to implementation and its reasoning
2. Program execution results:

Comment header in the code, describing the solution and identifying the programmer