DocumentCode :
3588570
Title :
NetStorageFPGA—A prototyping platform for building high-performance transmission and storage systems using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware
Author :
Jie Zhang ; Xiaoshan Jiang ; Jie Wu ; Jie Shan
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Particle Detection & Electron., Inst. of High Energy Phys., Beijing, China
fYear :
2014
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
3
Abstract :
A wide range of applications require high-speed access to mass-storage devices with cost-effective standard interfaces, such as gigabit Ethernet and Serial-ATA (SATA). Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), which features expansibility, parallel processing and in-system programmability, has the opportunity to build high-performance hardware accelerators with Tbytes for data acquisition system. Our approach, named NetStorageFPGA, introduces a prototyping platform with four gigabit Ethernet ports, three SATA connectors and PCI Express x1 interface. The FPGA on the platform directly handles all data-path switching, routing, and processing of Ethernet and SATA packets. The experimental result shows that the maximal sustained orderly data transfer rate is up to 118 MB/s per channel. In addition, we adopt the digital synchronous clock (DSC) function for data acquisition. The synchronization with time interval error (TIE) jitter root-mean-square (RMS) of 32.38 ns is achieved.
Keywords :
data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; local area networks; NetStorageFPGA; PCI Express x1 interface; SATA connectors; cost-effective standard interfaces; data acquisition system; digital synchronous clock function; field programmable gate array hardware; gigabit Ethernet ports; high-performance hardware accelerators; high-speed access; jitter root-mean-square; mass-storage devices; time interval error; Data acquisition; Data communication; Field programmable gate arrays; Hard disks; Hardware; Standards; Synchronization;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Real Time Conference (RT), 2014 19th IEEE-NPSS
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3658-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/RTC.2014.7097527
Filename :
7097527
Link To Document :
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