PROJECTS

IEEE1588V2 / SyncE 10GbE Chassis Controller

Hardware | FPGA | Embedded Software

WHO	European Network Equipment OEM
WHY	Customer needed additional resource to support in-house engineering team to develop a 10GbE chassis controller blade with IEEE1588-2008 (PTPV2) and Synchronous Ethernet support
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	Freescale MPC8247 with DDR2, NOR/NAND FLASH Marvell 98DX4122 and 88E6352 Ethernet switches Vitesse VSC8488 (Dual 10G) VSC8574 (Quad 1G) Ethernet PHYs with IEEE1588V2 Microsemi (was Zarlink) Clock Synchronisers and Synchronous Ethernet Translators Marvell 88E1340 Ethernet PHYs Altera FPGAs, Fairchild USB PHY Serial 10Gbps on FR4 substrate
TOOLCHAINS	Mentor dxDesigner schematic capture and Expedition PCB layout Altera Quartus II Open-source Linux embedded software development
PROCESS	Customer’s Full Development Process using customer’s toolchains
WHEN	2010-2012