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Based on the integration of Eclipse Cyclone DDS™ and Eclipse iceoryx™, both are available as open-source and proven in automotive and mission-critical distributed systems
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Highly efficient zero-copy feature based on Eclipse iceoryx
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Highly robust implementation and performant network communication based on Eclipse Cyclone DDS
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Highly optimized integration with Apex.OS®
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Available as standalone product
Benefits
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Complete and integrated solution for both intra- and inter-ECU communication
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Already integrated into common frameworks such as ROS 2, Apex.OS®, AUTOSAR Adaptive. Simple to integrate into custom frameworks
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Support for DDS and SOME/IP, today's most relevant protocols for automotive ethernet
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Support of publish/subscribe and request/response communication
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Capable to handle large amounts of data efficiently, satisfying the data transport requirements of driver assistance and automated driving applications
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High-performance communication with low runtime consumption
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Communication discovery to support modern Service-Oriented-Architectures
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Safety certification according to ISO 26262
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Large set of Quality of Service (QoS) features
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Efficient bridging to network protocols like MQTT, AMQP, OPC-UA, Eclipse Zenoh
Apex.Middleware serves all applications from power train over ADAS to automated driving
Apex.Middleware is optimized for lowest and data-amount-independent latency for inter-process-communication on a single SOC
Roadmap
Proof-of-Concept
Components
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Eclipse Cyclone DDS
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Eclipse iceoryx
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SOME/IP
Pre-production
Apex.Middleware
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Integrated with Apex.OS Cert
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Interoperable with AUTOSAR Adaptive (ara::com and SOME/IP)
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DDS Security
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Automotive-grade and supported
Production
Apex.Middleware Cert
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Includes developer tools
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Professionally supported
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Safety certification according to
ISO 26262
Available today
Later 2021
Planned 2022
Apex.Middleware is framework and application agnostic
Software-Framework
Data Transport
Hardware
Kernel, Scheduler, Driver
Apex.OS®
Apex.Middleware
3rd party RTOS
ECU
Customer Framework
Apex.Middleware
3rd party RTOS
ECU
Apex.Middleware
3rd party RTOS
ECU
Algorithms and Functions
Customer Application
Customer Application
Customer Application
AUTOSAR Adaptive
The core of Apex.Middleware is Cyclone DDS and iceoryx
Eclipse Cyclone DDS™
Network generation DDS architecture
Efficient inter-SOC communication, designed to handle automotive use cases
Actively developed by ADLINK, with contributions from Apex.AI and the community
The default middleware for ROS 2 Galactic
The default middleware for Autoware.Auto developers
Currently being made feature complete for automotive use cases
Bindings for C, C++, Python, Rust
Eclipse iceoryx™
Inter-Process-Communication based on shared memory
Zero-copy intra-SOC communication, designed to handle GBytes/sec data transfer within ADAS and AD ECUs
Actively developed by Bosch, Apex.AI and community
Used in ROS 2, Cyclone DDS, eCAL by Continental, RTA-VRTE by ETAS
Currently being integrated into Cyclone DDS
Bindings for C, C++