Fibre Channel ULP (Upper Layer Protocol) Core

Overview

The New Wave DV Fibre Channel Upper Layer Protocol (FC-ULP) core provides a complete FC-4 layer hardware IP solution for the Fibre Channel Avionics Environment Remote Direct Memory Access (FC-AE-RDMA) and Fibre Channel Audio Video (FC-AV) protocols. FC-AE-RDMA follows the Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP) standard.

The core provides full FC-AE-RDMA and FC-AV compliance. The host interface to the core is AXI-MM. This allows the core to be connected to an external host processor over PCIe or to an embedded SoC processor. The core is built for dropping into an FPGA and providing the complete design from processor interface to FC-ULP network interface.

This core is targeted towards applications in military/aerospace and has been used on a wide range of parts at varying operating rates. The core comes with test benches, constraints and an example design, making design integration a straightforward task.

Evaluation versions of the FC-ULP IP core are available and New Wave DV has a set of standard form factor boards featuring FPGAs, Fibre Channel optics, and off-the-shelf reference designs for quick evaluation of the IP core

Key Features

FC-AE-RDMA & FC-AV compliant interface with hardware-based offload
Hardware DMA engines map sequence data to host memory buffers
Host processor offloaded from all networking responsibilities
Supports 1/2/4 Gbs data rates
Configurable number of ports in a single FPGA
AXI-MM host interface for embedded or PCIe-based processors
Frame counter and error statistics

Benefits

Increased performance with hardware-based FC-ULP offload
Hardware-based message processing and host DMA setup
Leverage proven technology for standard interface implementation
Mitigate obsolescence

Block Diagram

Applications

Avionics vehicle and mission systems
Industrial/Machine vision systems
Network packet capture

Deliverables

Core is delivered in netlist format including constraint files

Technical Specifications

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