The AMD-Xilinx Security Working Grouptakes place face-to-face in Munich, Germany, from December 5-6, 2023. Presentations include the latest security features in Versal ACAP and updates for the product roadmap.
MLE, a Premier AMD Alliance Member, will participate and offer its security solutions and services. Solutions for ARM OP-TEE, TCP/IP with TLS (NPAP and TLS) in RTL for fast and secure communication and services for hardening AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC and AMD Versal based systems when used in datacenter networking and telecommunications.
AMD’s Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit builds on the success of AMD’s Kria System-on-Modules (SoM) and is an ideal platform to test ideas for multi-Gigabit networking. Because Kria KR260 integrates an AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC device, functions can be implemented using adaptive computing concepts: Either using the ARM A53 Quad-core CPUs and/or using programmable logic.
Missing Link Electronics (MLE) is an AMD Premier Adaptive Computing Partner. AMD’s Premier Agreements require that MLE maintains a high level of expertise and that MLE engineers complete AMD’s Certification and training requirements. Since 2012, MLE has been supporting AMD Zynq-7000 SoC and Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC device projects with expertise in FPGA design and Linux Processing System software development.
Project Cross Collaboration at Robert BOSCH GmbH has been using the Kria KR260 Robotics Kit and has engaged with MLE for proving ideas for computer vision and IEEE 1722-style multi-Gigabit automotive networking. A demonstrator based on a Zone ECU and the Kria KR260 Robotics Kit has been presented at the IEEE SA Ethernet & IP Technology Day, September 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Record and replay of Multi GHz RF Signals can be a challenge when it comes to development of 5G/6G mobile communication. Other fields like measurement systems, telemetry and quantum computing technology face the same challenge of recording and replaying high speed analog signals.
IAF GmbH developed the ‘SDR6001’, a multi-channel Software Defined Radio Transceiver in a 19″/1U RF shielded enclosure. The System combines an AMD RFSoC Gen 3, a full custom 8 channel RF Front End and MLE’s NVMe Streamer for storage acceleration.
Equipped with integrated clock generation, internal/external clock interfaces, 100GbE and integrated SSDs the system allows to record and to replay signals up to 6GHz.
The AMD RFSoC Gen 3 with its integrated high speed ADC/DAC converters, Processing System, Programmable Logic and the multiple connectivity options is the core of the System. The integrated 2x 100G Ethernet MAC/PCS allows streaming data in and out.
For standalone operation, IAF integrated NVMe Steamer from Missing Link Electronics. Standalone operation means, working with SDR6001 without 100GB Ethernet real time streaming. Installation of double NVMe SSDs offers replaying and capturing Terabytes of data with the combined data rate of 4.2 GiB/s write and 6GiB/s read.
MLE’s NVMe Streamer is a Full Accelerator NVMe host subsystem and takes care of the entire PCIe communication and the NVMe queues. This allows the CPU to focus on setting up the data paths and data organization.
The Control and Measurement Architecture from IAF handles, controlled by the software‚ “Session Manager”, the complete system configuration and the setup of the data paths. The RF settings allow it to work with variable RF frequencies up to 6 GHz via integrated RF front-ends. An external RF front-end for mmWave operation at 60 GHz with 1 GHz bandwidth is also available.
IAF has done development and research on wire, wireless and optical communication for over 30 years. Therefore we utilize the newest standards to develop Prototypes, small series and experimental Systems. IAF conquers the challenge of growing data rates in the fields of mobile communications, digital broadcasting, measurement technology and telemetry. Starting from System architecture, development of digital and analog system components up to full System implementation.
Digital communication is its keyword!
Missing Link Electronics GmbH
Missing Link Electronics is an AMD AECG Premier Partner which offers solutions from design services, over full system stacks up to entire systems. For more than a decade MLE has demonstrated expertise in FPGA programming – offloading CPUs and in accelerating software-rich system stacks via so-called Domain-Specific Architectures. To implement this MLE makes heavy use of heterogeneous processing such as FPGAs which we program using C++/C/SystemC as well as VHDL and Verilog HDL. Hence, from software to silicon!
If it is packets, we make it go faster!
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Says Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Waldschmidt, head of the institute:
Adding NVMe SSDs and MLE’s NVMe Streamer solved our need for high speed mass storage. As all came in the form of a reference design, it was easy to integrate in our system. The Standard AXI4 Stream interfaces allow an easy connection to our existing Digital Radar Design. The experts of Missing Link Electronics also helped with the development of a custom carrier board for the AMD Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC ZCU216, NVMe and 100GbE interfaces.
NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) has become the prominent choice for connecting Solid-State Drives (SSD) when storage read/write bandwidth is key. Electrically, the NVMe protocol operates on top of PCIe; it leaves behind legacy protocols such as AHCI, and thus scales well for performance. Licensing NVMe Streamer from MLE saved time and allowed us to focus on our research in Digital Radars.
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To address the acceleration needs of Disaggregated Computational Storage or At-Speed In-Network Processing, the featured solutions integrate MLE’s FPGA-based networking and storage accelerators with the latest ProDesign’s FALCON Agilex® 7 M Acceleration Card (based on Intel® Agilex® 7 FPGA), supporting up to 3x 400 GbE.
MLE and Trenz Electronic, both Premier Members of the AMD Adaptive Computing Partner Program, have collaborated and worked on Trenz’s new TE0950 AMD/Xilinx Versal™ AI Edge Evalboard to provide an integrated and pre-validated network and storage accelerating solution.
To realize network acceleration with AMD/Xilinx Versal™ AI Edge device, MLE implements the latest version of the TCP/IP Network Protocol Accelerator Platform which gains enhancements for performance and interoperability, on the TE0950 AMD/Xilinx Versal™ AI Edge Evalboard. Currently the 10G/25G TCP/IP Core is verified on the board in the Linux system, and testing with 50G/100G TCP/IP Core is also scheduled.
MLE also tested Opsero’s FPGA Drive FMC Gen4 with our NVMe Streamer, the full accelerator NVMe host subsystem, to enable high read/write bandwidth for SSD mass storage connectivity. We implement and verify a single PCIe x4 Gen4 SSD with 16GT/s transfer rate on the TE0950 AMD/Xilinx Versal™ AI Edge Evalboard.
MLE is dedicated to de-risking system design via integration and development services and FPGA Full System Stacks. Through testing in the MLE lab, we can verify the compatibility between Trenz’s new TE0950 board and our IP-core accelerators and its performance in accelerating networking and storage.
The Storage Developers Conference (SDC) 2023 of SNIA, the Storage and Networking Industry Alliance, will be held Sept. 18-21 in Fremont, CA.
There, MLE will present “How Bad is TCP? (And What Are the Alternatives?)“. TCP is ubiquitous, however, it has some significant drawbacks including unpredictable tail latency and a significant computational burden. MLE will share quantitative analysis results and describing alternatives.
One of which is the “Homa” protocol from John Ousterhout’s team at Stanford University. Homa is an implementation of a so-called Quad-RP, i.e. Rapid, Reliable Request-Response Protocol: Instead of streams it is message based and connectionless, which caters better to the needs of modern distributed, microserviced, virtualized architectures.
EtherCAT, the Ethernet Fieldbus, is the open real-time Ethernet network originally developed by Beckhoff. EtherCAT sets new standards for real-time performance and topology flexibility.
Nick-named “Robo/TSN”, MLE is extending its patented and patent pending technology to provide industrial, medical, and robotics networking solutions combining high-accuracy time-synchronization with high data rates of 100 Gbps, and faster. Robo/TSN will be capable of interfacing with, and tunneling of, EtherCAT.
Advantest is a world-class manufacturer of advanced automatic test equipment (ATE) for the semiconductor industry. Missing Link Electronics (MLE) has been involved in our advanced FPGA design efforts over several different tester models.
In 2021 and 2022 we engaged MLE to help in supporting the development of PCIe Gen 5 and NVMe interface on our ATE systems.
The MLE engineers that were assigned to work with us were experienced and very knowledgeable.
They coordinated with our internal team extremely well and were able to deliver working designs on-time and within budget.
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