So I found a source of SFP+ and esata based FMC cards, as well as a PCIexpress root card.
http://www.hitechglobal.com/Boards/Virtex-7_FMC.htm Pretty pricey to get into this stuff... On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote: > The zynx-70X0 chip is looking increasingly attractive as a next > generation router design target. Having the ability to write a better > ethernet chip/switch, something that could talk gpon/fiber and > eventually have well written in-hardware wireless interfaces is very > appealing. > > I've been watching the xilinx kernel development tree and seeing > things like full ethernet and PCIe master support land there, and > blogic spent a bit of time coaxing openwrt to nearly boot up on a > zedboard recently. > > But, it appears that all the existing dev boards don't do what I want, > so designing a new PCB as a basic platform appears to be the starting > place. Or finding someone that is designing one already to collaborate > with... (?) > > Basically what would suit is 6 ethernet ports (macs and magnetics), + > the ability to have 2 10gigE SFPs, a mini-pcie slot (to ease not > having a near term wireless chip around), on-board flash (can live > with a mini-sd card), 2 USB ports, and support for battery based > operation.... > > The audio, video, and usb-otg ports on the existing zedboard could go. > I don't see a whole lot of use for the plethora of switches and > connectors on it either, obviously some LEDs are needed... > > Certainly being able to prototype SDR would be good too, but perhaps > that would require retaining at least one FMC connector. > > I'm very encouraged by progress in the zynx-7020 parallela world, > here's someone that's managed to boot gnu radio already: > > http://forums.parallella.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=265 > > And some pictures of the first manufactured boards that came out last week: > > http://www.parallella.org/2013/04/16/hello-world-my-name-is-parallella/ > > http://elinux.org/Parallella_Hardware > > :lust: > > (I've got one of these on order!) > > That's on the high end. On the low end I'm still seeking a decent > atheros based board to continue building cero around. > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:41 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> I hadn't researched the HPC FMC requirement for 10 GigE one yet. >> >> >> >> The 1 GigE one is expensive, but not because of parts cost. This is the >> usual huge markup that goes with stuff sold to "Design Engineers" in >> companies - because they can charge, they do. >> >> >> >> The zedboard PMOD interface seems to be more marketing appropriate for >> "cheap" stuff. There is a PMOD for 100baseT, so you could throw a few of >> those on your system very cheaply. Since the interface to PMODs is 8-bit >> parallel, all you might need is the magnetics and PHY for GigE, and you >> could make a soft GigE controller in the programmable logic part of the >> Zynq-7020. I'd have to check that the signalling rates would be sustainable >> across the PMOD connector. >> >> >> >> To make an FMC board, populate it with whatever GigE chip you like, etc. is >> trivial. It should cost no more to fabricate than one of these little >> single chip GigE PCIe cards you can buy. What chip would you like to use? >> I (or others) could design the board and BOM, kit it up for manufacturing >> (by, say, Sunstone or other places that do PC boards and kitted assembly in >> small runs). >> >> >> >> Trivial stuff - maybe one could even convince Digilent and/or Avnet to do >> the design/mfring. >> >> >> >> Wouldn't it be a lot better to have a pluggable and completely flexible >> highly scalable monitoring unit that could go down the wire level as needed, >> with the base cost being the $300 that a Zedboard goes from? >> >> >> >> And it would be completely "open hardware" and :"open source". >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: "Dave Taht" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 8:47pm >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: "Mark Constable" <[email protected]>, [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] stanford talk/deluged in hardware/yurtlab >> >> Darn I wish I'd made it to that show today. >> >> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 5:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/2/prweb9154394.htm (10 GigE FMC card) >>> >>> >> >> >> impressive. Seems to require a hpc (high pin count) board, which zed isn't. >> >>> >>> >>> http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/1-2AJPAV.htm (1 GiGE FMC >>> card) >> >> >> 625 eu. While I am painfully aware of how much it costs to step ahead of the >> bleeding edge, I think the odds are pointing harder and harder at doing a >> non-fpga design that does what I want... >> >> I may go back to looking at octeons or ti's new octeon killer. >> >> And/or leveraging a newer atheros reference board. >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: "Dave Taht" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 1:39pm >>> To: [email protected] >>> Cc: "Mark Constable" <[email protected]>, >>> [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] stanford talk/deluged in hardware/yurtlab >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:26 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> It would be trivial to do this with a Zedboard. >>> >>> >>> Well, need two network ports. Haven't figured out much on interfacing the >>> thing to offboard gear (I'd have liked it if it had a pci interface). So is >>> interfacing up a second network card "trivial" on the I/Os provided? >>> >>> And wanted esata, or some high speed disk I/O interface for captures. >>> >>> I'd rather like to continue forward on the zedboard front. The prospect of >>> designing an ethernet chip that actually could incorporate fq_codel etc is >>> very exciting. The RGII interface is available to access directly, in >>> particular. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: "Dave Taht" <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 1:17pm >>>> To: "Mark Constable" <[email protected]> >>>> Cc: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] stanford talk/deluged in hardware/yurtlab >>>> >>>> Well, I see it for 320. Then you need to add a SSD, and a decent network >>>> card, and I suppose it could be made to work. Awful big, tho, in an era >>>> where I can get 1/2TB on an 2.5 inch SSD. >>>> >>>> What I'd wanted was closer to a dreamplug - 160 bucks, two network ports, >>>> but with an internal SSD. bonus points if it fit into a 1U rack and ate as >>>> little power as possible. >>>> >>>> Principal use case here is to be a "network monitor" with enough oomph to >>>> run stuff like cacti/mrtg/snmp tools, as well as do captures off of a >>>> mirrored switch port. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Mark Constable <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On 2013-02-03 09:18am, Dave Taht wrote: >>>>>> > I'm grumpy, as it doesn't have an esata interface internally, >>>>>> > apparently. >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.google.com?q=HP+N40L+MicroServer >>>>>> >>>>>> I know this is no where near an embedded device but I just got one of >>>>>> these >>>>>> on sale (new model out) for $220 and I think it's the most useful >>>>>> all-round >>>>>> cheap server box I've ever seen. Some people have it running 16 GB ram >>>>>> and >>>>>> I've got mine booting off an SSD via external eSATA. Very well built >>>>>> with 2 >>>>>> x half height PCI slots (4 x eth port card?). Only missing USB3 ports >>>>>> and >>>>>> hot-swap drive space. And, very quiet with just an SSD. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I'd be very interested to know how fast it could do packet header >>>>> captures. >>>>> >>>>> Line rate (gigE) would be good. >>>>> >>>>> Does it do BQL? 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