The NetFPGA SUME is an FPGA-based PCI Express board with I/O capabilities for 10 and 100 Gbps operation, an x8 gen3 PCIe adapter card incorporating Xilinx’s Virtex-7 690T FPGA. It can be used as NIC, multiport switch, firewall, test/measurement environment, and more.

Features list:

• Field Programmable Gate (FPGA) Logic
  • Xilinx Virtex-7 690T
  • 693,120 logic cells
  • 52,920 Kbit block RAM
  • up to 10,888 Kbit distributed RA
  • 30 GTH (up to 13.1Gbps) Transceivers
  • Fully programmable by the user
• 10-Gigabit Ethernet Connection
  • Connector block on left of PCB interfaces to 4 external SFP+ ports
  • Directly connected to the FPGA.
  • Wire-speed processing on all ports at all time using FPGA logic.
• Quad Data Rate Static Random Access Memory (QDRII+ SRAM)
  • Suitable for storing and forwarding table data
  • 500MHz Quad data rate (2 Giga transactions every second), synchronous with the logic
  • Three parallel banks of 72 MBit QDRII+ memories
  • Total capacity: 27 MBytes
  • Cypress: CY7C25652KV18-500BZC
• Double-Date Rate Random Access Memory (DDR3 DRAM)
  • Suitable for packet buffering
  • Two replaceable DDR3-SoDIMM modules
  • 933MHz clock (1866MT/s)
  • 238.8 Gbps peak memory throughput
  • Total capacity: 8 GBytes (Supports up to 32 GBytes)
  • Micron: MT8KTF51264HZ-1G9E5
• PCI Express Gen. 3
  • Third generation PCI Express interface, 8Gbps/lane
  • 8 lanes (x8)
  • Hard IP
  • Provides CPU access to memory-mapped registers and memory on the NetFPGA hardware
• Expansion Interfaces
  • Fully compliant VITA-57 FMC HPC connector, including 10 high-speed serial links
  • SAMTEC QTH-DP connector, connected to 8 high-speed serial links
  • Allowing to connect additional 18 GTH transceivers
  • Digilent PMOD expansion connector
• Storage
  • 2 SATA connectors
  • Micro-SD slot
  • 2 FLASH devices, each 512Mbit (1Gbit total)
• Additional Features
  • Clock recovery circuit
  • Voltage sensors
  • Current sensors
  • User LEDs & Push Buttons
• Standard PCIe Form Factor
  • Standard PCIe card
  • Full length, full height
• Flexible, Open-source code

A full description of the board and its potential use cases is provided in the following paper:

Noa Zilberman, Yury Audzevich, G. Adam Covington, Andrew W. Moore, 'NetFPGA SUME: Toward 100 Gbps as Research Commodity,' IEEE Micro, vol.34, no.5, pp.32,41, September-October 2014 (official version) (pdf)

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