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From: "Bogdan Vacaliuc" <bvacaliuc@firefly.mv.com>
To: "'Dan Malek'" <dan@embeddededge.com>, "'Gilad Rom'" <gilad@romat.com>
Cc: <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: RE: Gigabit Ethernet
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 07:01:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002b01c53a98$0211ad00$0b03a8c0@lithium> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62642b91fa50ac5f881ed8fa9400deed@embeddededge.com>

On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:04 PM, Dan Malek wrote:

> On Mar 22, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Gilad Rom wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone ever tried using a Gigabit PCI
>> adapter with one of the Au1x00 boards? Any success?
> 
> Just remember that the Au1x00 boards are 32-bit , 33 MHz,
> 3.3V PCI, so choose your boards accordingly.  Please don't expect the
> Au1x00 to run the TCP/IP stack anywhere near Gigabit speeds ..... :-)

We have researching this topic for a little while, particularly from the FPGA standpoint.  Although not specific to MIPS, I offer a
few links which discuss the considerations for successfully sustaining gigabit ethernet transport.

The "Gigabit System Reference Design", pg. 49 offers some benchmarks obtained using MontaVista Linux on a PowerPC 405.  Key
takeaways are that the data payload must not be handled by the stack (DMA direct from framebuffer/fifo/sdram) and must use jumbo
(5000,9000) ethernet frames.

Best Regards,

-bogdan

---

EE Times, "Altera Demonstrates FPGA for video-over-IP", March 2005,
http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159903648 

Altera, "Video Over IP Reference Design", March 2005,
http://www.altera.com/solutions/refdesigns/sys-sol/broadcast/ref-video.html

Xilinx, "Gigabit System Reference Design", June 2004,
http://direct.xilinx.com/bvdocs/appnotes/xapp536.pdf 

Xilinx, "Considerations for High-Bandwidth TCP/IP PowerPC Applications", XCell Journal pg.14-16, Winter 2004,
http://www.xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/xcell_51/xc_pdf/xc_xcell51.pdf 

Marco Riccioli, Xilinx "Getting the most TCP/IP from your Embedded Processor", Embedded World 2005,
http://www.treck.com/xilinx.pdf

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From: "Bogdan Vacaliuc" <bvacaliuc@firefly.mv.com>
To: 'Dan Malek' <dan@embeddededge.com>, 'Gilad Rom' <gilad@romat.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: RE: Gigabit Ethernet
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 07:01:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002b01c53a98$0211ad00$0b03a8c0@lithium> (raw)
Message-ID: <20050406110125.6MMYiQbedOkXbcqAJgIPD410EpBF0HEPdpctASqt4Es@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62642b91fa50ac5f881ed8fa9400deed@embeddededge.com>

On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:04 PM, Dan Malek wrote:

> On Mar 22, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Gilad Rom wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone ever tried using a Gigabit PCI
>> adapter with one of the Au1x00 boards? Any success?
> 
> Just remember that the Au1x00 boards are 32-bit , 33 MHz,
> 3.3V PCI, so choose your boards accordingly.  Please don't expect the
> Au1x00 to run the TCP/IP stack anywhere near Gigabit speeds ..... :-)

We have researching this topic for a little while, particularly from the FPGA standpoint.  Although not specific to MIPS, I offer a
few links which discuss the considerations for successfully sustaining gigabit ethernet transport.

The "Gigabit System Reference Design", pg. 49 offers some benchmarks obtained using MontaVista Linux on a PowerPC 405.  Key
takeaways are that the data payload must not be handled by the stack (DMA direct from framebuffer/fifo/sdram) and must use jumbo
(5000,9000) ethernet frames.

Best Regards,

-bogdan

---

EE Times, "Altera Demonstrates FPGA for video-over-IP", March 2005,
http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159903648 

Altera, "Video Over IP Reference Design", March 2005,
http://www.altera.com/solutions/refdesigns/sys-sol/broadcast/ref-video.html

Xilinx, "Gigabit System Reference Design", June 2004,
http://direct.xilinx.com/bvdocs/appnotes/xapp536.pdf 

Xilinx, "Considerations for High-Bandwidth TCP/IP PowerPC Applications", XCell Journal pg.14-16, Winter 2004,
http://www.xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/xcell_51/xc_pdf/xc_xcell51.pdf 

Marco Riccioli, Xilinx "Getting the most TCP/IP from your Embedded Processor", Embedded World 2005,
http://www.treck.com/xilinx.pdf

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-06 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-22 16:56 Gigabit Ethernet Gilad Rom
2005-03-22 21:04 ` Dan Malek
2005-04-06 11:01   ` Bogdan Vacaliuc [this message]
2005-04-06 11:01     ` Bogdan Vacaliuc

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