FPL Demo: 400G FPGA Packet Capture Based on Network Development Kit

Abstract

CESNET, the Czech NREN (National Research and Education Network), has a long research history in the area of high-speed network monitoring using FPGA accelerated cards. Now, we are ready to present our open-source Network Development Kit for FPGAs11https://github.com/CESNET/ndk-app-minimal/ which is ready for 400 Gbps data transfers via Ethernet and PCI Express. The demo aims to show the possibilities of NDK, which allows users to quickly and easily develop new network applications for FPGA-based acceleration cards. Even high-speed DMA Module fully supported in NDK is available free of charge for academic purposes. It can thus significantly contribute to the spread of 400G technology in the academic community and also among other users. The accelerator card equipped with the Intel Agilex I-Series FPGA will transmit and receive back 400G Ethernet (400GBASE) traffic via external loopback. The received packets will be forwarded via very fast packet DMA transfers directly to the RAM of the host computer.