Communication

(COM)

1. Layered Software Architecture

2. Communication (Com)
2.1 Transmission
2.2 Reception
2.3 Gateway

Documented by: ThuongT

©FPT SOFTWARE -- Internal Use 1
1. Layered Software Architecture

2
Communication stack

Within the AUTOSAR Layered Architecture the AUTOSAR COM

module is placed between RTE and the PDU Router 3
MESSAGE

• MESSAGEPROPERTY

• NOTIFICATION

• NOTIFICATIONERROR

©FPT SOFTWARE - Corporate Training Center - Internal Use 4

MESSAGEPROPERTY

©FPT SOFTWARE - Corporate Training Center - Internal Use 5

2. Communication (Com)
Functionality:
+ Provision of signal oriented data interface for
RTE the RTE
Signals
+ Packing of AUTOSAR signals to I-PDUs to
be transmitted
COM
+ Unpacking of received I-PDUs and provision
I-PDU
of received signals to RTE
PDUR + Routing of signals from received I-PDUs into
I-PDUs to become transmitted
+ Support of large and dynamic length data
types
6
Com: Transmission

7
Com: Endianess conversion
Big-endian: Motorola (0) Little-endian: Intel (1)

8
Com: Com_SendSignalGroup & Shadow Buffer

• Example with two group signals signal_a and signal_b, which

belong to group_x:

/* copy a to shadow buffer */

Com_SendSignal (signal_a, &a);

/* copy b to shadow buffer */

Com_SendSignal (signal_b, &b);

/* copy shadow buffer to I-PDU */

Com_SendSignalGroup (group_x);

©FPT SOFTWARE - Corporate Training Center - Internal Use 9

Direct Transmission Mode

10
Direct Transmission Mode

11
Periodic Transmission Mode

12
Mixer Transmission Mode

13
Com: Reception

14
Reception : Software filtering
The following attributes are
used by the set of filter
algorithms:
- new_value: current value
of the message

- old_value: last value of

the message (initialized
with the initial value of the
message, updated with
new_value if the new
message value is not
filtered out)

- mask, x, min, max,

period, offset: constant
values; and

- occurrence: a count of
the number of occurrences
of this message.

15
Com: Large data types
Transmission:
COM

16
Com: Large data types
Reception: COM

17
Com: Gateway

18
Related &Reference documentation:
• Specification of Communication
• ISO 17356-4:2005 Road vehicles -- Open interface for
embedded automotive
applications -- Part 4: OSEK/VDX Communication (COM)
• Specification of Pdu Router

19
Thank you!

20