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Metamako decided that it needed more than one Xilinx UltraScale FPGA to deliver the low latency and high performance it wanted from its newest networking platform. The resulting design is a 1RU or 2RU box that houses one, two, or three Kintex UltraScale or Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs, connected by “near-zero” latency links. The small armada of FPGAs means that the platform can run multiple networking applications in parallel—very quickly. This new networking platform allows Metamako to expand far beyond its traditional market—financial transaction networking—into other realms such as medical imaging, SDR (software-defined radio), industrial control, and telecom. The FPGAs are certainly capable of implementing tasks in all of these applications with extremely high performance.
Metamako’s Triple-FPGA Networking Platform
The Metamako platform offers an extensive range of standard networking features including data fan-out, scalable broadcast, connection monitoring, patching, tapping, time-stamping, and a deterministic port-to-FPGA latency of just 3nsec. Metamako also provides a developer’s kit with the platform with features that include:
- A Simplified Stack – One device houses the FPGA(s), x86 server, and Layer 1 switch, ensuring that all hardware components work in sync.
- Integration with existing FPGA Tools – Platform-specific adapters for programming the FPGA(s) are embedded in the Metamako device, allowing for quick and easy (remote) access to the device by the FPGA development tools.
- Layer 1+ Crosspoint Functionality – Includes all core Metamako Layer 1 functions such as market-scalable broadcast, connection monitoring, remote patching, tapping, and timestamping.
- SFP Agnostic – Metamako’s Layer 1+ switch is SFP agnostic, which saves FPGA developers time and effort in having to interface with lots of different types of SFPs.
- Feature Rich – Standard enterprise features include access control, syslog, SNMP, packet stats, tcpdump, JSON RPC API, time series data, and streaming telemetry.
- Easy Application Deployment – Metamako’s platform includes a built-in application infrastructure that allows developers to wrap applications into simple packages for deployment.
This latest networking platform from Metamako demonstrates a key attribute of Xilinx All Programmable technology: the ability to fully differentiate a product by exploiting the any-to-any connectivity and high-speed processing capabilities of Xilinx silicon using Xilinx’s development tools. No other chip technology could provide Metamako with a comparable mix of extreme connectivity, speed, and design flexibility.
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June 28, 2017 at 06:29AM