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NPAP Evaluation Reference Design Overview
MLE’s Network Protocol Accelerator Platform (NPAP) for 1/2.5/5/10/25/40/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet is a TCP/UDP/IP network protocol Full-Accelerator subsystem which instantiates the standalone 128 bit TCP/IP Stack technology from German Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI).
This document provides an overview over the existing Evaluation Reference Designs (ERD) for NPAP available at MLE. Besides the technical details of the various FPGA boards supported and number of NPAP instances, this document provides information about how to connect to SFP/SFP+/QSFP, set up the LAN for IP port numbers, together with a short introduction to Netperf for bandwidth and latency benchmarking.
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