Scale-Up Ethernet Ecosystem Ramps Up: Cadence ESUN Controller IP Available
Building on its High-Speed Ethernet controller IP family, Cadence provides ESUN-ready controller IP for next-generation AI scale-up networking.
Vendor:
Flexibilis Oy
Category:
Ethernet
Triple-Speed (10Mbps/100Mbps/1Gbps) Ethernet Layer 2 switch compatible with IEEE 802.1D
The core of FES is a multi-gigabit forwarding engine capable of serving up to eight full-duplex gigabit Ethernet ports, thus forw…
Overview
The core of FES is a multi-gigabit forwarding engine capable of serving up to eight full-duplex gigabit Ethernet ports, thus forwarding eight gigabits of data every second. All the ports have four priority queues enabling four different priority levels. At congestion situation frames are discarded in WRED (Weighted Random Early Detection) fashion, which drops frames from low priority queues first, preserving the more important streams also during congestion. Using Store-and-Forward technique enables error-checking of the frames and eliminates the possibility of the switch forwarding broken frames, which is impossible for Cut-through type of switches. Forwarding latency is minimal, thanks to gigabit operation.
Key features
- Compatible with IEEE standard 802.1D ”Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges”
- Time and frequency synchronization using IEEE1588-2008 Precision Time Protocol
- End-to-end transparent switch functionality
- Triple-speed Full-Duplex operation on all ports
- Wire-speed packet forwarding
- Reliable Store-and-Forward operation with data integrity checking
- Ethernet packet filtering and priorization
- 4 priority queues for each port
- Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED) queue management
- 512 kbit internal memory for output queues
- Efficient internal memory management
- Management Ethernet port
- Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol implementation support
- Automatic polling of connected Ethernet PHY interface chips
- 2048 address MAC-table
- Automatic address learning and aging
What’s Included?
- Evaluation package for LatticeECP3 PCI Express Solutions Board
- Open source IEEE 1588 PTP protocol stack implementation and Linux software for embedded environments
- Accelerated hardware test environment
Specifications
Identity
Part Number
FES
Vendor
Flexibilis Oy
Type
Silicon IP
Files
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Provider
HQ:
Finland
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What is Triple-Speed (10Mbps/100Mbps/1Gbps) Ethernet Layer 2 switch compatible with IEEE 802.1D?
Triple-Speed (10Mbps/100Mbps/1Gbps) Ethernet Layer 2 switch compatible with IEEE 802.1D is a Ethernet IP core from Flexibilis Oy listed on Semi IP Hub.
How should engineers evaluate this Ethernet?
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