Vendor: TTTech Industrial Automation AG Category: Ethernet

Flexible Deterministic Ethernet IP Core with TSN (Time Sensitive Networking)

TTTech Industrial’s Flex IP Core is a flexible design IP for customized chip or ASIC products.

Overview

TTTech Industrial’s Flex IP Core is a flexible design IP for customized chip or ASIC products. Flex IP Core offers a wide range of configurable features and a verification environment that enables developers to check the coverage and quality of IP. Flex IP Core source code is developed and delivered according to ASIC requirements e.g. memories instantiated on top-level.

Key features

  • Ports
    • 3 to 12 ports; 10/100/1000 Mbit/s
  • Physical Interfaces
    • MII, GMII, RMII, RGMII, SGMII,
    • 100BASE-FX, 1000BASE-X
    • PPS (Pulse-Per-Second) output
    • Avalon slave interface for management register access
  • TSN
    • IEEE 802.1AS Time Synchronization
    • IEEE 802.1Qbv Scheduled Traffic
    • IEEE 802.1Qcc SRP Enhancements
    • IEEE 802.1Qbu Frame Preemption
    • IEEE 802.1CB Frame Replication and Elimination
    • IEEE 802.1Qci Filtering and Policing (Available 2020)
  • AVB
    • IEEE 802.1AS Time Synchronization for Time-Sensitive Applications (gPTP)
    • IEEE 802.1Qav Forwarding and Queuing for Time-Sensitive Streams (FQTSS)
  • HSR
    • HSR RedBox, HSR End Node and QuadBox support
  • PRP
    • PRP RedBox and DANP support
  • IEEE 802.1Q
    • Port-based VLANs and VLAN tagging
    • Prioritization of packets on egress ports
    • Untagging of VLAN frames on egress ports
  • Clock Synchronization
    • IEEE 802.1AS (including multi-time domain support)
    • IEEE 1588-2008 layer 2 one/two-step end-to-end transparent clock support
  • Switching Engine
    • Store and forward architecture providing full cross-sectional bandwidth
    • 128 Kbit frame buffer per port
    • 4096 VLANs
    • 16 MAC address filters per port
    • Up to 4096 entry MAC address hash-based learning table
    • Up to 4096 policer per port
    • 8 traffic shapers per port (optional)
    • Static configuration of MAC addresses
    • Flow identification-based MAC addresses
    • Ingress rate-limiting on a per-port basis for unicast, multicast, and broadcast traffic
    • Embedded Software Linux kernel module
    • Native Linux interfaces / user space configuration library
    • Edge PTP in binary format for ARM – for IEEE 1588 / IEEE 802.1AS clock synchronization
    • MSTP including additions for engineered traffic (802.1Qcc)
    • Open source support for SNMP and NETCONF

Benefits

  • Configurable and scalable features for optimal silicon design-in
  • Delivered according to ASIC development requirements
  • Provides guaranteed low-latency communication for critical traffic
  • Includes the latest IEEE 802.1 Ethernet standards

What’s Included?

  • IP core design files in source code
  • Software and device drivers for Linux
  • YOCTO based build system
  • Integration manual
  • Verification environment
  • Test report
  • Technical documentation

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
Flex IP Core
Vendor
TTTech Industrial Automation AG
Type
Silicon IP

Files

Note: some files may require an NDA depending on provider policy.

Provider

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