What is a middleware?
Middleware is software that sits between the operating system and the application software of a computer system. The purpose of middleware in automotive embedded systems is to decouple the application software with the business logic from the underlying hardware. This fosters the reuse of the application software across different hardware platforms and generations.
Middleware provides a set of services and functions that applications can use to interact with the underlying hardware and other system components. It also establishes the communication between different applications or software components that sit on top of the middleware. It can include functionality such as data transfer, memory management, security, and communication. It is designed to be modular and flexible, allowing different applications to use different components of the middleware as needed.
