TCP/UDP/IP Network Protocol Accelerator Platform

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.

• 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)

• 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

• 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