ENET4000RD A single FPGA supporting high level of external interfac integration together with full functional NPU and Traffic manager 12 SGMIIs interfaces for direct connectivity to GbE Fiber SFP, or 4 x 2.5Gbps SGMII 12 RGMIIs interfaces for copper connectivity 2 10GbE XAUI connector  for 1+1 operation On-board DDRs for packet memory, search and paramaters Motorola MPC852T Power QUICC-I environment RS232 and FE port for Out-of-band management

Overview

Ethernity Networks ENET4000RD is the Reference design kit for the ENET4000 device complies with ATCA. It supports up to 24GbE ports and 2 XAUIs . The Development Kit minimizes development time by facilitating evaluation, testing, and design of Metro Access modules built on the ENET4000 NPU & Traffic Manager device therefore minimizing time-to market for our customers.

Hardware Features

• A single FPGA (Altera Stratix GX 90/130) and 8 External DDR2 components
• 24GbEs user ports ( 12 fiber, 12 copper)

• 2 XAUI interfaces

• On-board DDRs for packet memory, search and parameters entries
• Motorola MPC852T Power QUICC-I environment
• 32MB (option up to 128MB) SDRAM on the 32-Bit Address and Data bus.
• 32MB Code Flash and 1MB Boot Flash
• RS232 and FE ports for Out-of-band management

Software Features

• OS independent
• Linux and Vx works operating system support
• LSP – Linux Support Package
• Software download via ftp
• Efficient Boot Loader provides flexible and fast software updates
• CLI – Command Line Interface accessible via Serial Port and remote Telnet client
• Full API support
• Software solution for:
• Flexible Classification
• Search tables programming
• Q-In-Q
• MAC-in-MAC
• MPLS
• Full support and guideline for other protocol including: L2TP,GFP, PPPoE, GEM or any Packet/Cell manipulation.

Software support

The software support package of the ENET4000 includes the following functions:

• OS independent abstraction layer
• Dedicate Vx Works and Linux support
• Linux operating system
  • The Linux kernel based on version 2.4 or higher
  • Supports standard Linux utilities via an implementation suitable for embedded systems, such as "Busybox"
  • The Linux distribution supports ftp and telnet server daemons. In addition, an http server daemon is supported.
• LSP - Linux Support Package
  • The card auto-boots Linux after reset / power up, without requiring any external NFS file system (e.g. by using a RAMDISK file system).
  • The card's boot package enables the default auto-boot procedure to be interrupted (e.g. via CTRL-C at the console), to enable downloading of software via TFTP.
  • The card is mounted on a JFFS2 file system on the local Flash, which can be used for persistent storage of application configuration data.
  • Enables persistent static configuration of IP Address parameters (IP Address, Subnet mask, Default Gateway). These static configurations will be stored in Flash memory, and will be automatically loaded at boot time. In addition, it shall be possible to configure the card to use DHCP to dynamically obtain IP address parameters
  • Software download is supported via ftp.

• CLI - Command Line Interface accessible via Serial Port and remote Telnet client
• Debug Utility accessible via Serial Port and remote Telnet client

Reference Design Package

Ethernity's ENET4000 is built for easy evaluation and development of modules with the ENET4000 device. The reference design includes all necessary documentation and collateral information to accelerate product development and minimize time-to-market. Reference design package documentation includes:

• Hardware architecture
• Bill of Materials
• Software manuals
• Schematics
• Board Reference Manual
• Application Notes
• Data sheets
• Register document
• API document

Testability

The ENET4000 includes the following testability functions:

• HP Mictor for logic analyzer as following:
• One for ENET4000 test pins.
• One for the MPC852T buses.
• Support IEEE 1149.1 JTAG.
• BDM connector.
• Ethernet 10MHz port for SW debugging.
• RS232 monitor in Baud Rate of 19200 bp/s.
• ICT: The card provides an In Circuit Testing capability in case that this function can't be supported by the JTAG.