A Quick Update for GENI Engineering Conference (GEC3) - Oct 30, 2008 John W. Lockwood and the NetFPGA Team jwlockwd@stanford.edu http://NetFPGA.org/
What is the NetFPGA? Networking Software running on a standard PC PC with NetFPGA Networking Software running on a standard PC CPU Memory PCI A hardware accelerator built with Field Programmable Gate Array driving Gigabit network links FPGA Memory 1GE NetFPGA Board
NetFPGA-1G Hardware Xilinx Virtex-2 Pro FPGA PCI Host Interface SRAM DRAM 4 * Gigabit Ethernet ports
Uses of the NetFPGA Open source IPv4 Router Network Security Verilog code on NetFPGA.org Network Security Firewall / IDS / IDP Snort Accelerator Hardware-Accelerated OpenFlow Router Jad will describe this at the first talk in the ANCS conference held next week
Building Modular Router Modules NetFPGA Driver PW-OSPF Verilog EDA Tools (Xilinx, Mentor, etc.) Design Simulate Synthesize Download CPU Memory Java GUI Front Panel (Extensible) PCI In Q Mgmt IP Lookup L2 Parse L3 Out Q 1GE Verilog modules interconnected by FIFO interfaces 1GE FPGA 1GE 1GE My Block Memory 1GE
NetFPGA Worldwide Tutorial Series SIGCOMM: Seattle, Washington Jiaotong Univ. Beijing, China Eurosys: Glasgow, Scotland Cambridge: England Hot Interconnects & Summer Camp Stanford, California CESNET Brno, Czech Republic SIGMETRICS San Diego, California IISc Bangalore, India NICTA/UNSW: Sydney, Australia
Photos from NetFPGA Tutorials SIGCOMM - Seattle, Washington, USA Beijing, China SIGMETRICS - San Diego, California, USA Bangalore, India EuroSys - Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. http://netfpga.org/pastevents.php and http://netfpga.org/upcomingevents.php
NetFPGA Hardware Deployments (as of June 2008) 500 NetFPGAs deployed at over 60 world-wide locations
Current Status of NetFPGA Cards First Batch of 500 NetFPGA 1G Cards Sold out in August 2008 Deployed at 80 sites in 14 countries Next batch of 500 cards Manufacturing now Should start shipping on Nov 17, 2008 We anticipate building about 5,000 cards NetFPGA 10G 4 * 10 Gbps link s40 Gbps (80 Gbps throughput if you count ingress+egress) PCI-express host interface Contact us if you intend to use this card
http://NetFPGA.org On-Line Community