[Discuss-gnuradio] Gig-E alternatives

[Kimsey Pollard]

I attended several Intel platform and embedded systems

conferences last week and they made it clear Intel will move

rapidly into dual/multi core cpu's for power and heat reasons.

Systems will appear by late this year.

They will also be moving to eliminate parallel connectivity

methods like isa, pci; replacing them with serial ata slots(4x faster than pci) and 

and HD drive connectors for full size and embedded systems.

While it is close range in feet, a USRP board connected via sata 

cable would have considerable through-put.  I don't know the 

current rates ( ~133 to 150mb/s) but the roadmap puts the upper end at 600mb/s.

Board connector traces required for sata are greatly reduced from a parallel 

architecture.

Kimsey

On Jun 23, 2005, at 10:12 PM, address@hidden wrote:

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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:22:15 +0930

From: "Rob Schenk" <address@hidden>

Subject: RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gig-E alternatives

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I'm new to this group/discussion so I apologise if this has already been

discussed...

"Virtex-4 FX12 Mini-Modules are available from Memec..."

This is small and could be fitted as a daughterboard.

Adds GigE link at reasonably low cost, i.e. for those appns that need it?

See attached flyer... or visit:

  http://legacy.memec.com/devkits/americas.shtml

Has this module been considered/evaluated?

Also interested in hearing from anyone who has had issues/problems using the

GigE

interface for this module (eg MAC layer implementation).

Rob.

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Kimsey Pollard

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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