TCP/UDP/IP Network Protocol Accelerator Platform

Overview

Accelerate Network Protocols with FPGA TCP/UDP/IP Stack

The German Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI) has partnered with MLE to market the proven network accelerators “TCP/IP & UDP Network Protocol Accelerator Platform (NPAP)”. This customizable solution enables high-bandwidth, low-latency communication solutions for FPGA- and ASIC-based systems for 1G / 2.5G / 5G / 10G / 25G / 40G / 50G / 100G Ethernet links.

MLE is a licensee of Fraunhofer HHI, and offers a range of technology services, sublicenses and business models compatible with customer’s ASIC or FPGA project settings, world-wide.

Key Features

Highly modular TCP/UDP/IP stack implementation in synthesizable HDL
Full line rate of 70 Gbps or more in FPGA, 100 Gbps or more in ASIC
128-bit wide bi-directional data paths with streaming interfaces
Multiple, parallel TCP engines for scalable processing
Network Interface Card functionality with Bypass (optional)
DPDK Stream interface (optional)
Corundum NIC integration with performance DMA and PCIe (optional)

Benefits

Accelerate CPUs by offloading TCP/UDP/IP processing into programmable logic (“Offloading”)
Increase network throughput and reduce transport latency
Bring full TCP/UDP/IP connectivity to FPGAs even if no CPU available (“Full Acceleration”)
Complete and customizable turn-key solutions and IP cores based on the TCP/UDP/IP stack from the Fraunhofer HHI
All MAC / Ethernet / IPv4 / UDP / TCP processing is implemented in HDL code, synthesizable to modern FPGAs and ASIC
User applications can either be implemented in FPGA logic or in software via application-specific interfaces to CPUs

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Applications

FPGA-based SmartNICs
In-Network Compute Acceleration (INCA)
Hardware-only implementation of TCP/IP in FPGA
PCIe Long Range Extension
Networked storage, such as iSCSI
Test & Measurement connectivity
Automotive backbone connectivity based on open standards
Video-over-IP for 3G / 6G / 12G transports
Increase throughput for 10G/25G/50G/100G Ethernet
Reduce latency in System-of-Systems communication

Technical Specifications

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