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hey man, for personal research I think check this

Hi Umair, thank you for the message. Is there a rough architecture
that you can suggest for me? I would be more interested in
implementing it on PCIe cards using the GMAC.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Umair Siddiqui<umairsiddiqui84@g...> 
To: 
Date: Wed Mar 12 10:22:45 CET 2008 
Subject: [oc] FPGA based Co-processor for reducing CPU burden on 
TCP/IP 
	processing 

> 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 at brain4free.org> 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 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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