1. A Quick Update for GENI Engineering Conference (GEC3) - Oct 30, 2008
John W. Lockwood
and the NetFPGA Team

2. 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

3. NetFPGA-1G Hardware Xilinx Virtex-2 Pro FPGA PCI Host Interface SRAM
DRAM
4 * Gigabit Ethernet ports

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Photos from NetFPGA Tutorials
SIGCOMM - Seattle, Washington, USA
Beijing, China
SIGMETRICS - San Diego, California, USA
Bangalore, India
EuroSys - Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
and

8. NetFPGA Hardware Deployments (as of June 2008)
500 NetFPGAs deployed at over 60 world-wide locations

9. 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

10. http://NetFPGA.org On-Line Community