Title :
NetFPGA--An Open Platform for Gigabit-Rate Network Switching and Routing
Author :
Lockwood, John W. ; McKeown, Nick ; Watson, Greg ; Gibb, Glen ; Hartke, Paul ; Naous, Jad ; Raghuraman, Ramanan ; Luo, Jianying
Author_Institution :
Stanford Univ., Stanford
Abstract :
The NetFPGA platform enables students and researchers to build high-performance networking systems in hardware. A new version of the NetFPGA platform has been developed and is available for use by the academic community. The NetFPGA 2.1 platform now has interfaces that can be parameterized, therefore enabling development of modular hardware designs with varied word sizes. It also includes more logic and faster memory than the previous platform. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) logic is used to implement the core data processing functions while software running on embedded cores within the FPGA and/or programs running on an attached host computer implement only control functions. Reference designs and component libraries have been developed for the CS344 course at Stanford University. Open-source Verilog code is available for download from the project website.
Keywords :
computer networks; electronic engineering education; field programmable gate arrays; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication switching; NetFPGA; academic community; component libraries; core data processing functions; field programmable gate array logic; gigabit-rate network switching; network routing; open-source Verilog code; Data processing; Embedded computing; Embedded software; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Logic gates; Open source software; Programmable control; Programmable logic arrays; Routing;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronic Systems Education, 2007. MSE '07. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2849-X
DOI :
10.1109/MSE.2007.69
