The NetFPGA-10G UPB OpenFlow Switch

Welcome to the NetFPGA-10G-UPB-OpenFlow repository.

Please read the provided documentation carefully before using this code.

This repository contains the NetFPGA-10G UPB Framework along with two projects:

• upb_l2switch: A simple layer 2 network switch based on the NetFPGA-10G card.
• upb_openflowswitch: The hardware implementation which is part of an OpenFlow Switch. A modified version of Open vSwitch is required (available here).

Please note that the NetFPGA-10G UPB Framework is not compatible with the Stanford NetFPGA-10G Framework.

Feature Overview

• Jumbo Frame Support
• Large output queues using the external QDR2-SRAM memory
• Flow Control using ethernet pause frames
• Driver ported to Linux New API
• Support for multiple cards in one host PC
• Support for Samtec high speed port to interconnect multiple cards

Requirements & Prerequisites

To build the projects you will need the following software (different versions might work):

• Ubuntu 14.04
• Linux Kernel 3.14
• Synplify Premier DP 2012.09-SP1
• Xilinx ISE 14.7
• Xilinx XPS 14.7

Licenses for the following IP cores are needed:

• Xilinx 10G MAC
• Xilinx Aurora

This project was created as part of the project group On-the-fly Networking for Big Data at University of Paderborn.