Design and Evaluation of FPGA - Based Gigabit - Ethernet / PCI Network Interface Card

The continuing advances in the performance of network servers make it essential for netw interface cards (NICs) to provide more sophisticated services and data processing. Mod network interfaces provide fixed functionality and are optimized for sending and receiving la packets. One of the key challenges for researchers is to find effective ways to investigate no architectures for these new services and evaluate their performance characteristics in a r network interface platform. This thesis presents the design and evaluation of a flexible and configurable Giga Ethernet/PCI network interface card using FPGAs. The FPGA-based NIC includes multi memories, including SDRAM SODIMM, for adding new network services. The experimen results at Gigabit Ethernet receive interface indicate that the NIC can receive all packet sizes a store them at SDRAM at Gigabit Ethernet line rate. This is promising since no existing NIC SDRAM due to the SDRAM latency. ork ern rge vel eal