i need fpga board with 10 Gig interface and pcie interface

hi all, for my application i need a fpga board which has PCI express
interface and 10 Gig ethernet or fibre channel interface. plz tell me
if there is any board.
one more thing startix II GX PCI Express development board of Altera
has10 Gig interface or not
if not which daughter card can be used to make it for 10 Gig.

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:14:03 -0800 (PST), [email protected] wrote:

>hi all, for my application i need a fpga board which has PCI express
>interface and 10 Gig ethernet or fibre channel interface. plz tell me
>if there is any board.

>one more thing startix II GX PCI Express development board of Altera
>has10 Gig interface or not

If it's the development board I'm thinking of, it doesn't do 10Gb/s.
The onboard StratixIIGX SERDES only works to about 6Gb/s. You could
do 4G Fibrechannel or 1G Ethernet using the SFP sockets supplied.


It's not too hard to roll your own 10Gb/s board though, but you'll
need to use external SERDES parts if you want it to work. See AMCC,
Vitesse, etc.
A couple of years ago I would have said that XFP was the only 10Gb/s
serial interface to use; now I would consider SFP+, as SFP+ will
probably be much cheaper than XFP over the lifetime of products
currently being designed.

Regards,
Allan

Allan Herriman wrote:
> A couple of years ago I would have said that XFP was the only 10Gb/s
> serial interface to use; now I would consider SFP+, as SFP+ will
> probably be much cheaper than XFP over the lifetime of products
> currently being designed.
>
> Regards,
> Allan

Hi Allan,
Thanks for your post. Have you used SFP+ yourself yet? I'd be interested to
hear your opinions and experiences.
Thanks, Symon.

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:01:19 -0000, "Symon" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Allan Herriman wrote:
>> A couple of years ago I would have said that XFP was the only 10Gb/s
>> serial interface to use; now I would consider SFP+, as SFP+ will
>> probably be much cheaper than XFP over the lifetime of products
>> currently being designed.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Allan
>
>Hi Allan,
>Thanks for your post. Have you used SFP+ yourself yet? I'd be interested to
>hear your opinions and experiences.
>Thanks, Symon.

No, I haven't used it yet, but I would consider it for future 10Gb/s
products.

I think we're just at the cusp. SFP+ Ethernet switches are available
from some of the smaller switch manufacturers. I predict within a
year or two, HP, Cisco, etc. will have matching products. Then the
prices for the more common optics (e.g. 10km 1310nm) will drop.

Some of our customers want 1550nm optics with 80km reach. That's
possible (but expensive) in XFP, but I don't think it's available at
all in SFP+ yet.


Disclaimer: this is all conjecture on my part.

Regards,
Allan

I expect that the poster may mean using four 3.125 GHz SerDes to implement
10 GigE (10GBASE-CX4 or -KX4), which is much more common these days.

What he fails to mention is the form factor desired - we have a Stratix II
GX AMC module which can do 4x PCI Express and 10 GigE (4 x 3.125), as there
are 8 SerDes lanes from the Stratix II GX to the AMC connector, as well as
another 4 out the front panel.

See http://www.bittware.com/products/boa...dShrtName=GXAM
for a description.

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Ron Huizen
BittWare

"Allan Herriman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:14:03 -0800 (PST), [email protected] wrote:
>
>>hi all, for my application i need a fpga board which has PCI express
>>interface and 10 Gig ethernet or fibre channel interface. plz tell me
>>if there is any board.
>
>>one more thing startix II GX PCI Express development board of Altera
>>has10 Gig interface or not
>
> If it's the development board I'm thinking of, it doesn't do 10Gb/s.
> The onboard StratixIIGX SERDES only works to about 6Gb/s. You could
> do 4G Fibrechannel or 1G Ethernet using the SFP sockets supplied.
>
>
> It's not too hard to roll your own 10Gb/s board though, but you'll
> need to use external SERDES parts if you want it to work. See AMCC,
> Vitesse, etc.
> A couple of years ago I would have said that XFP was the only 10Gb/s
> serial interface to use; now I would consider SFP+, as SFP+ will
> probably be much cheaper than XFP over the lifetime of products
> currently being designed.
>
> Regards,
> Allan