Hi, I am having a hard time finding an inexpensive FPGA card for networking applications. I have to develop an appliance for web cache proxy, so I need to implement TCP/IP stack and HTTP 1.1 protocol. Probably ethernet framing if the card doesn't include any ethernet contoller. What cards would you recommend me with 1GBit/s interface ? I know that 10Gbit would be better, but I can not pay 5K for such a card. Thanks in advance for your comments. Nulik
Do you know the Teresic DE0-Nano-SoC-Board? http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&No=941 It contains an Cyclone V SoC with a FPGA Part and a HPS Part (Hardprocessor ARM A9). So you can use the HPS & Linux for TCP and HTTP and the FPGA for the realtime stuff.
Frank wrote: > Do you know the Teresic DE0-Nano-SoC-Board? > > http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&No=941 > Ups, sorry, my bad. I forgot to tell, that I have to insert into the PCI express slot on the motherboard, so the interface must be PCI Express, but the transfer can be PCI x1
Frank wrote: > Do you know the Teresic DE0-Nano-SoC-Board? > > http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&No=941 > It is exactly the card I need , it has 1GB of ram 925MHz clock is enough to do all packet processing , networking stuff, and offset to the CPU disk & storage management, logging, statistics and dynamic request handling... But too bad it has no way to communicate with the CPU :(
>> Do you know the Teresic DE0-Nano-SoC-Board?
I have browsed a lot of boards, but very few have PCI x1 support, and
PCI Express is much more expensive. So a question comes to mind:
would USB work to handle traffic from eight 1 GBit ethernet cards on a
motherboard without bottleneck?
There are a lot of SoCs with ethernet and USB under 100 bucks. So it
would require 800 USD to make a server capable to handle almost 10Gbit
traffic. But a 10Gigabit PCI express card would cost above 2,500 USD.
And a 1Gbit Pci express card would cost above 1,200. So, many cheap SoCs
will by way outperform large specialized card in price/performance ,
because besides 1 RJ45 and USB they have 1 GB of RAM. A specialized
10GBit card will never include 8 GBytes of RAM, it would become
prohibitely expensive.
1 USB controller can handle 3 Gbit/sec , so it would manage traffic for
3 ethernet cards, additional USB v3.0 controller costs around 30 bucks,
so it is very cheap. But the question is , would USB protocol be enough
reliable? Seems to me like not very serious protocol for server
applications, more like a Desktop oriented. But is this really true?
Because manufacturers for server hardware charge lots of money for their
solutions and I am not fully believing it is really worth it.
What do you think?
Thanks in advance
Nulik
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