Case Study: 10GE Chassis Controller Blade

Who

• European Network Equipment OEM

Why

• Customer needed additional resource to support in-house engineering team to develop 10G chassis controller blade

What

• Technical feasibility
• Hardware design, development, testing and documentation
• Updates, verification and documentation to existing FPGA designs
• Open-source Linux uboot and hardware drivers, integration into customer's codebase
• Using customer's development process integrating to customer's hardware and software toolchains and libraries.

How

• Freescale MPC8247 with DDR2, NOR/NAND FLASH
• Marvell 98DX4122 and 88E6061 ethernet switches
• Marvell 88E2225, 88E1340 and 88E3018 PHYs
• Altera FPGAs, Fairchild USB PHY
• Mentor dxDesigner schematic capture and Expedition PCB layout
• Altera Quartus II

When

• 2010-2011

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