10G Ethernet for FPGA

We have a 10G Ethernet version of our ground breaking GEDEK IP ! Yes, it’s 10 times faster, and clearly, software solutions on FPGAs are unable to cope with such data rates (except on high-end SOC FPGAs, they struggle to manage Gigabit transfers without loss).

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10G Ethernet ???

10G Ethernet has quickly become available as an affordable standard, if not quite yet for the masses, at least for the scientific and industrial worlds.

Modern high-end FPGA now implement 10G SERDESes (transceivers) that can be configured to handle a single lane 10G Ethernet that can drive either short range copper cables (typically <5 m) or long to very long-reach optical fiber cables.

Once again, like Gigabit Ethernet 20 years ago, 10G Ethernet has became the easiest and cheapest method to transport 1.2 GigaBytes per second between two systems (like between a Data acquisition platform and a Processing platform -GPU or CPU-), for small distances, long distances, or even through a wide area network.

The cost of a 10G SFP+ Network Interface Card for PC is in the $50 range, and a 2m DAC (copper) twinax cable is under $20. As we see, adding a 10G link to a desktop is doable for $70.

And to exchange data (up to 1.2 GBytes/s) with an FPGA, you just need our 10GEDEK IP. You don’t need any expensive software nor specific drivers on your PC.

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… but …

Dealing with up to 1.2 GigaBytes per second with an embedded processor is simply unthinkable. With its hardware (processor-less) stack implementation, our 10GEDEK IP is the perfect solution, both for sending and for receiving without loss in an FPGA.

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The beauty of the GEDEK paradigm

If you’re not familiar with the concept of our GEDEK IP, you can refer to our GEDEK Introduction document. We have ported the main concepts of GEDEK to 10G Ethernet : this is our 10GEDEK IP.

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For what kind of FPGAs ?

ALSE’s 10GEDEK IP is available off-the-shelf for most Intel, Xilinx/AMD, Lattice and Microchip/MicroSemi FPGAs that include 10G transceivers. We have ready-to-use Reference Designs for a lot of FPGA kits from the various vendors above. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you don’t find a suitable one on this web site.

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Want to know more ?

You’ll need to contact us (and probably sign a NDA) to get more details on our 10G solutions.
You can fill in our Information Request Form and tell us about your application.

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