Design and implementation of a video-oriented network-interface-card system

Author

Chen, Ming-Chih ; Hsiao, Shen-Fu ; Yang, Cheng-Hsien

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

fYear

2003

fDate

21-24 Jan. 2003

Firstpage

559

Lastpage

560

Abstract

We design a specific Ethernet network interface card (NIC) for accelerating video delivery by offloading the overheads of protocol headers identification/appending and CRC/checksums calculation, and speeding video bit streams with a dedicated video interface. Compared with the same operations of a 50 MHz ARM micro-controller, the NIC system saves 47,000 ns per frame. This NIC card also supports the coexistence of the IPv4 and IPv6 standard for the future extension. Both FPGA prototyping and 0.35 μm cell-based design of the specific NIC system are given.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; integrated circuit design; local area networks; logic design; multimedia communication; network interfaces; telecommunication standards; video equipment; 0.35 micron; 47 mus; 50 MHz; ARM micro-controller; CRC/checksums calculation; Ethernet NIC; Ethernet network interface card; FPGA prototyping; IPv4 standard; IPv6 standard; NIC card; cell-based design; protocol header appending; protocol header identification; video bit streams; video delivery; video interface; video-oriented network-interface-card system; Acceleration; Circuits; Computer architecture; Computer science; Connectors; Cyclic redundancy check; Ethernet networks; Hardware; Protocols; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design Automation Conference, 2003. Proceedings of the ASP-DAC 2003. Asia and South Pacific

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7659-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASPDAC.2003.1195077

Filename

1195077