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Apex.Middleware

High-performance data transport.

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Apex.Middleware integrates all
automotive communication needs.

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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

  • Highly efficient zero-copy feature based on Eclipse iceoryx

  • Highly robust implementation and performant network communication based on Eclipse Cyclone DDS

  • Highly optimized integration with Apex.OS®

  • Available as standalone product

Startup Development Team

Benefits

  • Complete and integrated solution for both intra- and inter-ECU communication

  • Already integrated into common frameworks such as ROS 2, Apex.OS®, AUTOSAR Adaptive. Simple to integrate into custom frameworks

  • Support for DDS and SOME/IP, today's most relevant protocols for automotive ethernet

  • Support of publish/subscribe and request/response communication

  • Capable to handle large amounts of data efficiently, satisfying the data transport requirements of driver assistance and automated driving applications 

  • High-performance communication with low runtime consumption

  • Communication discovery to support modern Service-Oriented-Architectures

  • Safety certification according to ISO 26262

  • Large set of Quality of Service (QoS) features

  • 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

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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

  • Eclipse iceoryx

  • SOME/IP

Pre-production

Apex.Middleware

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  • Integrated with Apex.OS Cert

  • Interoperable with AUTOSAR Adaptive (ara::com and SOME/IP)

  • DDS Security

  • Automotive-grade and supported

Production

Apex.Middleware Cert

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  • Includes developer tools

  • Professionally supported

  • Safety certification according to
    ISO 26262

Available today

Available today

Later 2022

Apex.Middleware is framework and application agnostic

Software-Framework

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Data Transport 

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Hardware

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Kernel, Scheduler, Driver 

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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

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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 ZettaScale 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 Cyclone DDS on GitHub

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++

Eclipse iceoryx on GitHub