Title :
Electronic design of a high performance interface to the SCI network
Author :
Mora, F. ; Sebastia, A.
Author_Institution :
Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Abstract :
In this paper we describe the electronic design of a PCI-SCI bridge supporting shared memory, message passing and DMA transfers. This bridge is used to implement a shared-memory multiprocessor system. The PCI-SCI bridge´s functional units are programmed into re-loadable FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array). These functions are developed in VHDL and then simulated, synthesized, routed and placed via ATT´s advanced FPGA ORCA development tools. The results in terms of latency and bandwidth are satisfactory and they reach the initial set objectives
Keywords :
bridge circuits; field programmable gate arrays; file organisation; hardware description languages; message passing; network interfaces; shared memory systems; system buses; 68 MB/s; DMA transfers; FPGA ORCA development tools; PCI-SCI bridge; SCI network; VHDL; bandwidth; bridge functional unit programming; electronic design; high performance interface; latency; message passing; packet mode transactions; re-loadable FPGAs; shared memory; shared-memory multiprocessor system; transparent transactions; Application software; Bandwidth; Bridges; Computational modeling; Delay; Field programmable gate arrays; Message passing; Multiprocessing systems; Protocols; Silicon compounds;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisboa
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5008-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.1998.814075
