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.