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hi ricky

hey man, for personal research I think check this
http://www.em.avnet.com/evk/home/0,4534,CID%253D7816%2526CCD%253DUSA%2526SID%253DNoNav%2526DID%253DDF2%2526LID%253DNoNav%25255F%2526BID%253DDF2%2526CTP%253DEVK,00.html
Avnet Spartan 3 board, it has 10/100 Ethernet MAC, and PCI (not PCIe).
or some other board with similar facilities. (downside of this board
that it contains 1 M SRAM, it should contain 64/128M SDRAM,
search different catalogs and try to get more gates and DRAM bits)

-You can attach it to your PC PCI slot.
-Both PCI and Ethernet MAC Cores are available on OpenCores
-the rest of the FPGA will contain your TOE logic.

and you also need to write the software driver of this board.

i think if you can do enough TOE with this much hardware and PCI would
be more the enough for Packet DMA transfers.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Christoph Zimmermann
<nussgipfel@b...> wrote:
> hi ricky
>
>  there are at least two companies out there with products and services
>  to support your idea. also cray is selling a high performance computing
>  system with such a combination.
>  http://www.drccomputer.com/drc/modules.html
>  http://www.xtremedatainc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102&Itemid=156
>
>  yes, anything closed and high priced.
>
>  if you had the idea to make an homebrew board for that, for get it.
>  hypertransport is to fast to make a simple board by your self. if you
>  have a lot of experience with hardware design it's still possible but
>  you need a lot of time and realy good tools to manage it.
>
>  what is your background? (software engineer, hardware engineer,
>  embedded developer,...)
>
>  greetings
>  christoph
>
>  Am Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:37:19 -0700 (PDT)
>  schrieb Ricky James Allam <rickyjamesa@y...>:
>
>
>
>  > Hi All:
>  >
>  > I am new in FPGA design and am currently doing a personal research
>  > project on how to implement a co-processor using HyperTransport
>  > technology. The co-processor is to be used to reduce the burden of
>  > the host CPU (AMD Opteron) in processing TCP/IP protocols.
>  >
>  >  Can you provide me some ideas on this to come up with a rough
>  > prototype of the project?
>  >
>  > Your help is highly appreciated.
>  >
>  > Thanks a lot,
>  >
>  > Ricky
>  >
>  >
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