An in-band reconfigurable network node based on a heterogeneous platform

Author

Markert, E. ; Billich, E. ; Tischendorf, C. ; Pross, U. ; Leibelt, T. ; Heinkel, U. ; Knäblein, J. ; Schneider, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Circuit & Syst. Design, Chemnitz Univ. of Technol., Chemnitz, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

26-28 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

20

Abstract

This paper describes the implementation of a heterogeneous network node as a reconfigurable application based on embedded ASIC technology. The key points of the paper are the distribution of the reconfiguration data in-band over the network and the in-service-reconfiguration of the network node itself. The node consists of a static ASIC part and three reconfigurable various-grained FPGA-like areas included in one chip. The overall goal is to implement a system that can monitor an Ethernet data stream, extracts configuration data marked by the EtherType field in the Ethernet header and updates its functionality during operation time.

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; field programmable gate arrays; local area networks; FPGA-like; embedded ASIC technology; ethernet data stream; heterogeneous network node; heterogeneous platform; in-band reconfigurable network node; in-service-reconfiguration; Ethernet networks; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Protocols; Random access memory; System-on-a-chip; Ethernet node; in-band distribution; networks; reconfigurable architectures;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP), 2010 Conference on

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8734-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8733-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASIP.2010.5706240

Filename

5706240