Inter-Platform Communication Framework (IPCF)

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The Inter-Platform Communication Framework (IPCF) is a subsystem that enables applications (running on multiple homogenous or heterogeneous processing cores) located on the same chip or different chips (running on other operating systems like AUTOSAR^™, FreeRTOS^™, or more) to communicate over various transport interfaces (such as Shared Memory and others).

IPCF exposes a zero-copy API that customers can directly use for maximum performance, minimum overhead, and low CPU load. The driver ensures freedom from interference between local and remote shared memory by executing all writing operations only in the local memory domain.

Customers can enforce memory protection for their software with IPCF.

Software Details

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IPCF Architecture Block Diagram
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IPCF Architecture Block Diagram

Automotive General Block Diagram

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Features

General

Contains the communication driver over shared memory supporting AUTOSAR, FreeRTOS, and bare-metal.
Supported by S32 Design Studio with S32 Configuration Tool
Release based on Real-Time Drivers (RTD) software
Sample applications available demonstrating a ping-pong message communication

Drivers

Shared memory generic implementation that is hardware and operating system agnostic
Hardware abstraction component: abstraction over various HW IP modules (MSCM, INTC …)
Operating system abstraction component: OS agnostic API for common OS services

Supported Devices

S32G3: S32G3 Processors for Vehicle Networking

S32K3: S32K3 Microcontrollers for Automotive General Purpose

S32R45: S32R45 High-Performance Processor for Imaging Radar

S32R294: Radar Microcontroller

S32G2: S32G2 Processors for Vehicle Networking

S32K39-37-36: S32K39/37/36 Microcontrollers for Electrification Applications

Software Offering

S32K3	S32G2	S32G3
Part of the S32K3 Standard Software GET IPCF FOR S32K3	Part of the S32G2 Standard Software GET IPCF FOR S32G2	Part of the S32G3 Standard Software GET IPCF FOR S32G3