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Contributing your Project

• To make your project most useful to the community, it should be packaged in a standard way
  • Encouraging Reusable Network Hardware Design
  • Directions on Contributing Applications is provided.
  • Source code can be packaged in a compressed tarball (.tar.gz) and/or made available for YUM installation
• Please indicate which base package you used to build your project.
  • The most recent official release was 2.0
    • Please check your code to see which base version you are using
• Create a Wiki page for your project
  • Key sections is documented in: Contributing your Wiki Page
  • For help with Syntax, see: FosWiki Users Guide

Projects

• ProjectTable: shows list of
  • Project title, Organization, XContact, WebLinks, Status
• Based on information from:
  • Wiki pages
    • Search of Projects:
    • Projects
    • Contributed

Developers Workshop (2009)

• DevWorkshop09: Developers Workshop: 2009

Beta Program (2008)

• The NetFPGA Guide
  • Primary documentation for the Beta release
• Beta Release Regression Tests
  • Describes the regression test for each supported feature of the NIC, router, SCONE, and GUI
• Beta - Base Distribution Download
  • The web site where the distribution can be downloaded
    • base: contains the code
    • lib: contains open-source, 3rd-party libraries used by NetFPGA
    • lib_src: contains source code for 3rd-party libraries
  • Access restricted to registered users
• Beta-plus
  • Page that contains full source code for Beta-plus users
• Contributed Packages from Alpha testers and Beta users
  • Contributed
• NetFPGA for
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
  • Students

Alpha Program (2007)

Alpha Program

• Contains pages that had been used for the Alpha testers and the Alpha program
• The Alpha program will complete on Dec. 15 2007.
• All future development work is in support of the Beta program

Tutorials, Workshops, and Camps

• Events
• Event Map (Worldwide locations)
• Internal page for scheduling tour & schedule

Host Computers

The NetFPGA fits into a host PC via a PCI slot. A few standard machine configurations are supported and have been used to build the nf-test cluster at Stanford.

• Stanford nf-test machines Equipment
  • Board status - Status and Location of the NetFPGAs
  • NF-Test page
  • Packaging and distribution

• NetFPGA Cluster (nfc)
  • NetFPGA Cluster - nfc cluster homepage

Environment and Tools

• Simulation Environment
• ISE setup
• PC configuration for Tutorial Management

Design Documents

• Simplifying Module interfaces
• DDR2 DRAM Interface
• DDR2 Block Data Read Write
• DMA Support to Receive/Transmit Packet
• Coding guidelines
• Registers
• Task list
• Selftest: Hardware Testing
• Dell 2950 Support Bracket

NetFPGA Links

• NetFPGA home page: http://netfpga.org
• Bugzilla: http://netfpga.org/bugzilla
• Wishlist for additional features: Suggested Improvements
• NetFPGA Documents
• Researchers: Papers by topic
• The Guide to the Beta Program

NetFPGA mailings Lists

Internal Developers (Core team)

• The NetFPGA Developer notes have moved to
  • http://yuba.stanford.edu/cleanslatewiki/index.php/NetFPGA-DevMeetingNotes
• Access is limited to NetFPGA Developers and the internal Clean Slate group.
  • Log in to the clean slate Wiki to access and edit these pages
• The Old DevMeetingNotes? (Wiki Version, starting July 23, 2008) are no longer hosted on this website
• netfpga-dev@lists.stanford.edu

Alpha Program Testers (people at ten institutions)

• netfpga-alpha@lists.stanford.edu

Beta Users (Those that have completed the survey)

• netfpga-beta@lists.stanford.edu

User Groups

There are three types of NetFPGA users

• NetFPGA Developers (The core group of Developers)
• Beta Users (auto-created with confirmed email)
  • Default for students, teachers, researchers
• Beta-plus User are given access to source code granted by developers
  • Subset of teachers and researchers that need access to reference router source code

Training Material

• SummerCamp2008