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NetFPGA: reusable router architecture for experimental research

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Jad Naous,

Glen Gibb,

Sara Bolouki,

Nick McKeownAuthors Info & Claims

PRESTO '08: Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Programmable routers for extensible services of tomorrow

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1397718.1397720

Published: 22 August 2008 Publication History

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Our goal is to enable fast prototyping of networking hardware (e.g. modified Ethernet switches and IP routers) for teaching and research. To this end, we built and made available the NetFPGA platform. Starting from open-source reference designs, students and researchers create their designs in Verilog, and then download them to the NetFPGA board where they can process packets at line-rate for 4-ports of 1GE. The board is becoming widely used for teaching and research, and so it has become important to make it easy to re-use modules and designs. We have created a standard interface between modules, making it easier to plug modules together in pipelines, and to create new re-usable designs. In this paper we describe our modular design, and how we have used it to build several systems, including our IP router reference design and some extensions to it.

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PRESTO '08: Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Programmable routers for extensible services of tomorrow

August 2008

82 pages

ISBN:9781605581811

DOI:10.1145/1397718

Program Chairs:
Jennifer Rexford
Princeton University, USA
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AT&T Labs Research, USA
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T. V. Lakshman
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