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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.
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Features list:
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+ - 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
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+ - 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.
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+ - 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
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+ - 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
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+ - 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
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+ - 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
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+ - Storage
+ - 2 SATA connectors
+ - Micro-SD slot
+ - 2 FLASH devices, each 512Mbit (1Gbit total)
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+ - Additional Features
+ - Clock recovery circuit
+ - Voltage sensors
+ - Current sensors
+ - User LEDs & Push Buttons
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+ - Standard PCIe Form Factor
+ - Standard PCIe card
+ - Full length, full height
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+ - Flexible, Open-source code
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A full description of the board and its potential use cases is provided in the following paper:
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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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