MWMR

General presentation

The MWMR communication middleware implements a generic inter-task communication mechanism for shared memory multi-processors architectures. This protocol has been designed to support both communication between software tasks (running on a programmable processor), and hardware tasks, implemented as dedicated hardware coprocessors.

MWMR stands for Multi Writers, Multi-Readers. The MWMR channel itself is implemented as a software FIFO, that can have several producers, and several consumers. Each MWMR communication channel is protected by a dedicated lock, for exclusive access.

Any access to a shared MWMR channel respect a five stages protocol :

* * * *

The MWMR middleware can be used with both the MutekH and MutekS operating systems.

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The MWMR middleware has two main components :

• The software part is a library of C functions. Those functions are build on top of the POSIX API and implement the 5 steps MWMR protocol. They can be used by a software task to read from or write into

one or several MWMR channels. You can get the code ​here

• The hardware part is a generic MWMR controller. This hardware component has a DMA capability, and implement the 5 steps MWMR protocol. It and can be used by any hardware coprocessor that has one or several simple FIFO interfaces.

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You can obtain more detailed information, and download the code