<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>I had fired them off an email a few days ago, it looked like very exciting stuff,<br></div><div>and a good base for further efforts into getting core bits of code finally into <br>hardware.<br></div><div><br></div>Assuming they reply sanely I plan to support their kickstarter, and I would<br>hope others here would too. I am not as broke as usual and was planning<br></div><div>on buying another zedboard, and will just send them that check instead.<br></div><div><br>I had already<br>assembled a similar set of stuff (zedboard, fmc 4 port card, netfpga´s DRR<br></div>implementation [1], the senic rate limiter [2]) - but lack time or funding to <br>pursue that further. <br><br>These folk already are using a <br>much better 4 port chip for ethernet and seem to have assembled other<br>key pieces like pcie support, that make for building the "perfect" debloated<br>device all the more possible.<br><br></div>And their projected costs are about 1/20th what I would have expected to<br>do the same thing in the US for.<br><br></div>I have also realized that as much as I would like to be designing circuits again<br></div>things like vivado have a steep learning curve. I really, really liked chisel [3] <br>though. So leveraging their efforts for future hardware work strikes me as <br></div>a very good idea...<br><div><br><div><div>[1] <a href="https://github.com/NetFPGA/netfpga/wiki/DRRNetFPGA">https://github.com/NetFPGA/netfpga/wiki/DRRNetFPGA</a><br>[2] <a href="http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ssradhak/Papers/senic-nsdi14.pdf">http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ssradhak/Papers/senic-nsdi14.pdf</a><br><div>[3] <a href="https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/">https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:10 AM, JF Tremblay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jean-francois.tremblay@viagenie.ca" target="_blank">jean-francois.tremblay@viagenie.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Just came across this.<br>
Any thoughts about this platform? A bit pricey, and the wi-fi is an add-on. Based on Zynq 7030 dual-core.<br>
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<a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onetswitch/onetswitch-open-source-hardware-for-networking" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onetswitch/onetswitch-open-source-hardware-for-networking</a><br>
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