Project Description

PROJECTS

10GbE Chassis Controller Blade v2

Hardware | FPGA | Embedded Software

WHO European Network Equipment OEM
WHY Customer needed additional resource to support in-house engineering team to replace obsolete switching silicon in a 10GbE chassis controller blade
WHAT
  • Technical feasibility
  • Hardware design, development, testing and documentation
  • Updates, verification and documentation to existing FPGA designs
  • Open-source Linux U-Boot and hardware driver design, development, testing and documentation
  • Software integration into customer’s codebase
TECHNOLOGY
  • NXP Layerscape LS1043 with DDR4, NOR/NAND FLASH
  • Marvell 98DX3510 “Alleycat5X” Ethernet switches
  • Marvell 88X5243, 88E1548 and 88E1512 Ethernet PHYs
  • Altera FPGAs
  • 14-layers, 3900 components, 2900 nets, 110 differential pairs, 10000 vias
  • Serial 10Gbps on FR4 substrate
TOOLCHAINS
  • Mentor Xpedition schematic capture and layout reviews
  • Altera Quartus
  • Open-source C embedded software development
PROCESS Customer’s Full Development Process and toolchains
WHEN 2022-2025

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