PowerPC 440 demo on Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGAs runs gigabit Ethernet link

Julien Happich

EE Times Europe (10/27/2009 5:34 AM ET)

CAMBRIDGE, UK — Designer of IPv4 and IPv6 solutions and related real-time embedded internet protocols, Treck, Inc. released a TCP/IP demo based on the Xilinx ML507 evaluation board.

The demo is based on the Xilinx Application Note xapp1043 and achieves near line-rate throughput with TCP/IP on a gigabit Ethernet link. The demo has also added support for using the Treck TCP/IP stack in a multi-threaded environment with XilKernel.

Even with the added overhead of XilKernel, the Treck TCP/IP stack is capable of delivering near line-rate TCP throughput of 938 Mbps with standard 1500 byte Ethernet frames and 990 Mbps with 9000 byte Jumbo Ethernet frames.

The demo also includes UDP throughput testing and examples of several of Treck's upper layer protocols: HTTP server, FTP server, Telnet server, and SNMP agent demo.

More information and the demo can be downloaded at http://www.treck.com/xilinx.html