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A New Embedded Platform for Rapid Development of Networking Applications
Korček Pavol, Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY)
Košař Vlastimil, Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY)
Žádník Martin, Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY)
Viktorin Jan, Ing.
FPGA, Zynq, Embedded, Networking
NetFPGA-1G has shown its potential in enabling fast traffic processing while introducing no packet loss and minimal delay. Now it is time to scale down in order to enable a massive deployment of the FPGA solutions in networking. We propose and build a low-cost and low-power platform which is be capable of hosting embedded applications with FPGA support. Such a platform might enable faster deployment of new ideas in networking and might prove useful for large-scale experiments (stacks of platforms) as its size, power consumption and cost are expected to be ten times lower of the NetFPGA-cube. It is recognized that the FPGA coupled with the host processor comprises a powerful platform for network traffic processing. The logic of such a solution is clear. Computational intensive tasks are handled by the FPGA logic whereas more complex tasks by the processor. The proposed platform aims at such a design in which the FPGA and the processor are even more tightly coupled together on a single die SoC solution. As a proof of this concept, we build a platform called uG4-150. Its FPGA hosts a synthesized softcore processor (e.g. Xilinx MicroBlaze). But our final goal is to utilize the hardcore processor (e.g. ARM-based) integrated with the FPGA such as Xilinx Zynq.
@inproceedings{BUT97024,
author="Jan {Kořenek} and Pavol {Korček} and Vlastimil {Košař} and Martin {Žádník} and Jan {Viktorin}",
title="A New Embedded Platform for Rapid Development of Networking Applications",
booktitle="Proceedings of the 2012 Seventh ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2012)",
year="2012",
pages="81--82",
publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
address="Austin",
doi="10.1145/2396556.2396573",
isbn="978-1-4503-1684-2",
url="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2396573"
}