Electronic design of a high performance interface to the SCI network

Author

Mora, F. ; Sebastia, A.

Author_Institution

Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

535

Abstract

In this paper we describe the electronic design of a PCI-SCI bridge supporting shared memory, message passing and DMA transfers. This bridge is used to implement a shared-memory multiprocessor system. The PCI-SCI bridge´s functional units are programmed into re-loadable FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array). These functions are developed in VHDL and then simulated, synthesized, routed and placed via ATT´s advanced FPGA ORCA development tools. The results in terms of latency and bandwidth are satisfactory and they reach the initial set objectives

Keywords

bridge circuits; field programmable gate arrays; file organisation; hardware description languages; message passing; network interfaces; shared memory systems; system buses; 68 MB/s; DMA transfers; FPGA ORCA development tools; PCI-SCI bridge; SCI network; VHDL; bandwidth; bridge functional unit programming; electronic design; high performance interface; latency; message passing; packet mode transactions; re-loadable FPGAs; shared memory; shared-memory multiprocessor system; transparent transactions; Application software; Bandwidth; Bridges; Computational modeling; Delay; Field programmable gate arrays; Message passing; Multiprocessing systems; Protocols; Silicon compounds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisboa

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5008-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.1998.814075

Filename

814075