1. Informational Tutorial

2. Section I: Motivation

3. NetFPGA = Networked FPGA
A line-rate, flexible, open networking platform for teaching and research

4. NetFPGA Board 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

5. Tools + Reference Designs
Compile designs
Verify designs
Interact with hardware
1G Reference designs:
Router (HW)
Switch (HW)
Network Interface Card (HW)
Router Kit (SW)
SCONE (SW)
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6. Who, How, Why Who uses the NetFPGA? How do they use the NetFPGA?
Researchers
Teachers
Students
How do they use the NetFPGA?
To run the Router Kit
To build modular reference designs
IPv4 router
4-port NIC
Ethernet switch, …
Why do they use the NetFPGA?
To measure performance of Internet systems
To prototype new networking systems
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7. Stanford NetFPGA Cluster
Statistics
Rack of 40
1U PCs
NetFPGAs
Managed
Power,
Console
VLANs
Provides 160 Gbps of full line-rate processing bandwidth

8. UCSD-NetFPGA Cluster

9. Contributed Projects Project Contributor OpenFlow switch
Stanford University
Packet Generator
NetFlow Probe
Brno University
NetThreads
University of Toronto
zFilter (Sp)router
Ericsson
Traffic Monitor
University of Catania
DFA
UMass Lowell
More projects:

10. NetFPGA Community
Over 1,000 users, using 1,900 cards at 150 universities in 32 countries

11. Wiki Documentation User/Developers Guides

12. Forums
Supported by Users for Users