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+<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
+<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
+"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
+and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
+<!-- Initial Contributors:
+    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+Contributors: 
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE concept
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
+<concept id="GUID-6752A77F-B1D1-49BE-A672-5DDE3B7976BF" xml:lang="en"><title>Other
+Synchronisation APIs</title><shortdesc>This document describes APIs other than the nanokernel which device
+drivers use for synchronisation.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<p>The Kernel provides APIs to wait in blocked state, unblocked state, and
+nanokernel APIs to get the tick period, timer ticks, to sleep on nanothread,
+and so on. </p>
+<codeblock id="GUID-E70B072C-6CE9-572C-BF74-C7F4EE812CBF" xml:space="preserve">// Wait for a length of time specified in nanoseconds
+// This is a blocking call, and is not generally recommended
+// to be used. It should be used only for very short periods.
+//
+Kern::NanoWait(TUint32 aInterval);
+ 
+// This API polls at specified regular intervals, for a
+// specified number of attempts. A function implementing the polling
+// operation is called at these intervals. This does not block the 
+// thread. The poll period is in milliseconds.
+// 
+TInt Kern:: PollingWait(TPollFunction aFunction, TAny *aPtr, 
+                TInt aPollPeriodMs, TInt aMaxPoll);
+</codeblock>
+</conbody></concept>
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