Versal Prime - VCK190 Evaluation Kit Ethernet TRD Tutorial

Design Overview

Design Overview¶

Introduction¶

The Ethernet platform is designed to support a Versal VCK190 board for showcasing the MRMAC IP as a peripheral and PL based Precision Time Protocol (PTP) solution for PTP packet processing. It consists of MRMAC with 4 lanes enabled, each can be configured to support 10G/25G. Each lane of the MRMAC IP is interfaced to one TX and RX channel of an independent MCDMA. The ACAP hardware that is supported on the Versal platform has the following features:

It contains the Quad base GT in Programmable Logic (PL) to accommodate the movement of Ethernet packets. The output of the GTY is connected to the external NIC through a QSFP to SFP cable. The ethernet data packets are transferred using MRMAC via GT interface.

Design Components¶

Hardware components

VCK190 Evaluation Kit

100G QSFP28 to 4 x 25G SFP28 cable (Board to 10/25G NIC setup)

100G QSFP28 to 100G QSFP28 Cable (Board to Board Setup)

Solarflare NIC on x86 host ( X2522 )

Interfaces and IP

Ethernet Packet generator or receiver

VCK190 Evaluation Kit

Solarflare NIC connected on x86 host

PTP Packet Processing

PL based PTP HW Master in Transmit direction

PL based PTP filter and Timestamp prepend logic in Receive direction

Auxiliary Peripherals

SD

I2C

UART

Ethernet

Software components

Operating system

APU: SMP Linux

Linux kernel subsystems

TCP/IP Stack

Speed Supported

4x10G

4x25G

Next Steps

Setting up the Board and Application Deployment
Go back to the VCK190 Ethernet TRD design start page

References

VCK190 Evaluation Board User Guide (UG1366)
Versal Software Install and Board Setup (XTP629)
Versal Architecture and Product Data Sheet: Overview (DS950)
Versal Devices Integrated 100G MRMAC Subsystem Product Guide ( PG314 )

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