CI-ADDO-EN: NetFPGA Community Infrastructure Development and Operations of the NetFPGA

CI-ADDO-EN：NetFPGA 社区基础设施开发和 NetFPGA 运营

• 批准号: 0855268
• 负责人: Nick McKeown
• 金额: $ 177.7万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0855268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; ADDO; EN; NetFPGA; Community

The NetFPGA platform makes it easy for students and researchers to build and deploy high-performance networking systems using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware. FPGA logic is used to process packets at line-rate, while software running on an attached host computer implements control functions. The principal investigators (PIs) began the beta program in January of 2008 and made the NetFPGA hardware available to any school by providing a copy of the source-source schematic and printed circuit board design to a low-cost 3rd party manufacturer. To keep the hardware cost low, they asked semiconductor companies to donate the components used on the NetFPGA. Today, every major component on the board is donated as a gift by Xilinx, Broadcom, Micron, and Cypress. The PIs also made the open-source software, gateware, courseware, and reference designs for the NetFPGA freely available on the NetFPGA.org website. Broader Impact The community is growing and contributing back feedback, creating new courses, and creating new applications for the NetFPGA. Going forward, the PIs want to continue their outreach program to include deployment of NetFPGA hardware in backbone networks, other research laboratories, and classrooms in EPSCoR states. Where possible, they have raised industrial funds so they can donate NetFPGA systems to under-funded schools.Intellectual Merit Through this award the PIs plan to do five things: (1) Pay for professional staff to continue the operation of the NetFPGA program, (2) Design and develop new reference designs and applications for the community, (3) Acquire and deploy the NetFPGA in many schools, particularly in EPSCoR states, and in national backbone networks, (4) Work with the community to create a self-supporting user-community within three years, and (5) Explore the design of a NetFPGA-10G ? a 10Gb/s version of the platform.

NetFPGA 平台使学生和研究人员可以使用现场可编程门阵列 (FPGA) 硬件轻松构建和部署高性能网络系统。 FPGA 逻辑用于以线速处理数据包，而在连接的主机上运行的软件则实现控制功能。主要研究人员 (PI) 于 2008 年 1 月开始测试计划，通过向低成本第三方制造商提供源源原理图和印刷电路板设计的副本，向任何学校提供 NetFPGA 硬件。为了保持较低的硬件成本，他们要求半导体公司捐赠 NetFPGA 上使用的组件。如今，板上的每个主要组件都是 Xilinx、Broadcom、Micron 和 Cypress 作为礼物捐赠的。 PI 还在 NetFPGA.org 网站上免费提供 NetFPGA 的开源软件、网关软件、课件和参考设计。更广泛的影响 社区正在不断壮大并提供反馈、创建新课程以及为 NetFPGA 创建新应用程序。展望未来，PI 希望继续他们的推广计划，包括在 EPSCoR 州的骨干网络、其他研究实验室和教室中部署 NetFPGA 硬件。在可能的情况下，他们筹集了行业资金，以便向资金不足的学校捐赠 NetFPGA 系统。 智力贡献 通过这一奖项，PI 计划做五件事：(1) 支付专业人员费用，以继续 NetFPGA 项目的运营，( 2) 为社区设计和开发新的参考设计和应用，(3) 在许多学校（特别是 EPSCoR 州和国家骨干网络）获取并部署 NetFPGA，(4) 与社区合作创建一个自支撑的网络三年内用户社区，以及 (5) 探索 NetFPGA-10G 的设计？该平台的 10Gb/s 版本。