Consumer

A consumer block provides the following interactions with its corresponding application consumer component:

• During setup phase:
  • Synchronization:
    • Accepts consumer synchronization requirements.
    • Reports producer synchronization requirements.
    • Accepts consumer allocated sync objects.
    • Reports producer allocated sync objects.
  • Buffers:
    • Accepts list of element attributes consumer requires.
    • Reports consolidated packet attribute list.
    • Reports all allocated packets.
• During streaming phase:
  • Signals availability of packets for reading.
  • Retrieves next payload with fence to wait for before reading.
  • Accepts packet, which can be reused with fence to wait for before the produce writes new data.
• In non-safety builds, during streaming phase:
  • Reports updated packet attributes.
  • Reports removal of buffers allocated for old attributes and addition of new ones.