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hi ricky

Hi christoph,
Thank you for your response.
I have a solid experience on digital design and am entering into the
new field (Both hardware and embedded). I'm also looking for the free
IP cores so I could get a not-so-expensive prototyping. Can you
suggest me some?

Ricky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Christoph Zimmermann<nussgipfel@b...> 
To: 
Date: Tue Mar 11 22:05:57 CET 2008 
Subject: [oc] FPGA based Co-processor for reducing CPU burden on 
TCP/IP 
	processing 

> 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 at yahoo.com>: 
> > 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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