Overview:

 

Ethernity Networks ENET48xxRD is the Reference design kit for the ENET48xx 40Gbps Carrier Ethernet Switch SoC on FPGA. It supports up to 18GbE ports and 2 10GE SFP+ . The Development Kit minimizes development time by facilitating evaluation, testing, and design of Carrier Ethernet Switch built on the ENET48xx Packet Flow processor and Traffic Manager device therefore minimizing time-to market for our customers.

 

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Hardware Elements

 

• Entire Carrier Ethernet Switch, and traffic manager integrated on 28 nm Kintex 7 FPGA

• 20GbEs user ports ( 10 fiber, 10 copper)

• 2 x 10GE SFP+ interfaces

• On-board DDR3 for packet memory, search and parameters entries

• Motorola MPC8306, Power QUICC-III environmentA single low cost FPGA

• 32MB (option up to 128MB) SDRAM on the 32-Bit Address and Data bus.

• 32MB Code Flash and 1MB Boot Flash

• RS232 and FE ports for Out-of-band management

 

Software support

 

• OS independent

• Linux and Vx works operating system support

• LSP – Linux Support PackageSoftware download via ftp

• Efficient Boot Loader provides flexible and fast software updates

• CLI – Command Line Interface accessible via Serial Port and remote Telnet client

• Full API support

• Option for 3rd party metro switch software application

 

Reference Design Package

 

Ethernity's ENET48xx is built for easy evaluation and product development with the ENET48xx device. The reference design includes all necessary documentation and collateral information to accelerate product development and minimize time-to-market.

 

Reference design package documentation includes:

 

• Hardware architecture

• Bill of Materials

• Software manuals

• Schematics

• Board Reference Manual

• Application Notes

• Data sheets

• CLI document

• API document