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If you want an FPGA tied to a SolarFlare NIC, that's been available for years as a finished product under the name "Application Onload Engine". News article: h
by willglynn 7y ago
If you want an FPGA tied to a SolarFlare NIC, that's been available for years as a finished product under the name "Application Onload Engine". News article:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/08/solarflare_application_onload_engine/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/08/solarflare_applicat...
Whitepapers:
* https://solarflare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SF-114649-CD-LATEST_Solarflare_AOE_SFA7942Q_Product_Brief.pdf https://solarflare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SF-114649-...
* https://solarflare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SF-114903-CD-LATEST-Solarflare_Application_Nanosecond_TCP_Send_Paper.pdf https://solarflare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SF-114903-...
- 1e-9 7y agoYes, but the Solarflare ApplicationOnload Engine has several issues (e.g. limited Altera FPGA, inflexible architecture, logic on a separate ASIC that must communicate with the FPGA, and still uses a host CPU for the networking stack), which should be resolved by fully integrating with the Xilinx Ultrascale+ technology and putting all networking and decision logic on one chip. The result should be a much faster, much more flexible, and much more powerful solution.