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MLE and Trenz Verify the AMD/Xilinx Versal™ AI Edge Device and Accelerate Networking and Storage with 10G/25G/50G/100G TCP/IP Core

September 20, 202310/25/50/100G Ethernet MAC, AMD Versal, Network Acceleration, NPAP, NVMe, TCP/IP, trenz

Network and Storage Acceleration IPs Verified on AMD/Xilinx Versal

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.

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SNIA Storage Developers Conference, Sept. 18-21, 2023 in Fremont, CA

August 7, 2023

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.

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MLE Joins the EtherCAT Technology Group

August 7, 2023

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.

FPGA Drives Next-gen Automatic Test Equipment

August 1, 2023test & measurement

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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News

July 27, 2023

News

MLE continues to work with a wide range of partners to develop advanced FPGA-based networking and storage applications, as well as to share our experience and latest research results in seminars as well as webinars. Here we share our latest news and events.

MLE Joins Central Car Server Supercomputing Research for Automotive, Funded by German BMBF

Dec 1, 20224 years ago

Advanced Driver-Assist Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicle (AV) functions require a challeging combination of of compute performance and energy efficiency, especially when deployed in Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV). MLE has…

Intel Partner Alliance Gold Status Renewed

Dec 1, 20224 years ago

Intel Corporation has renewed MLE’s Gold Status membership in the Intel Partner Alliance for 2023. The Intel Partner Alliance unifies all partners in a modern program that enables collaboration and…

MLE’s Auto/TSN for Digital RADAR Networks Receives BMBF Funding

Dec 1, 20224 years ago

In-Vehicle Networks of the future will be driven by the large bandwidth needs of modern sensors, in particular Radar (Radio Detection and Ranging), and more importantly networks of digital Radar…

MLE exhibits at SC22

Nov 4, 20224 years ago

Partner ProDesign and MLE will showcase High-Performance Compute solutions at Super Computing Conference SC22. To address the acceleration needs of Disaggregated Computational Storage, ElasticSearch, or At-Speed In-Network Processing the featured…

MLE Joins German 6G Radio Initiative, Receives BMBF Funding

Nov 1, 20224 years ago

Integrated Communication and Sensing (ICAS) has become a key research topic for realizing next-generation mobility solutions. For 6G Radio, ICAS enables sensor systems to cooperate and to interact via 6G…

MLE Presents at SNIA SDC 2022

Jul 21, 20224 years ago

At SNIA Storage Developers Conference (SDC) 2022, on Sept. 14, MLE and partner Fraunhofer IPMS will present “Converging PCIe and TSN Ethernet for Composable Infrastructure in High-Performance In-Vehicle Embedded Systems”:…

US Patent 11,356,388 for Real-Time Multi-Protocol Heterogeneous Packet-Based Transport

Jun 7, 20224 years ago

Missing Link Electronics has been awarded US Patent 11,356,388 on Real-Time Multi-Protocol Heterogeneous Packet-Based Transport which covers real-time and time-synchronization aspects when tunneling packets such as PCI Express (PCIe) Transaction-Layer…

Network Element Virtualization Whitepaper

Apr 25, 20225 years ago

SmartNICs Make Better Networks! At SmartNICsSummit 2022, held April 26-28 in the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, CA, Algoblu and MLE will present solutions for NEV and the use case…

MLE Presents at FPGA Conference Europe 2022

Apr 11, 20225 years ago

At FPGA Conference Europe 2022, MLE will present “A 10 Gigabit Ethernet TCP/IP Stack Implementation on Microsemi PolarFire for High-Speed Camera Image Transport” and will give details on FPGA-based TCP/UDP/IP…

MLE NPAC-40G Now Runs CORUNDUM System Stack

Apr 8, 20225 years ago

MLE has ported and tested a full system stack based on CORUNDUM for NPAC-KETCH, CORUNDUM is a vendor-neutral open source high-performance FPGA-based SmartNIC development platform. NPAC-KETCH is a FHHL PCIe…

Success Stories

July 27, 2023

Success Stories

Over the last decade, MLE has gained deep experience working with clients and partners on FPGA-based subsystems for a wide range of applications, such as networking, storage, telecommunication, automotive, aerospace/defense, test & measurement, and video streaming.

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Corundum DPDK Driver

July 21, 2023Corundum, DPDK

MLE presents an initial DPDK driver for the corundum multi-queue network interface card (mqnic). The driver is available via the respective github repository of Missing Link Electronics.

DPDK is the acronym for Data Plane Development Toolkit and it consists of libraries to accelerate packet processing workloads running on a wide variety of CPU architectures. To enable packet reception and transmission, a driver is required to integrate various NICs into the DPDK.

Corundum mqnic is a project aiming at providing a fully open source FPGA based in network compute platform, comprising Linux drivers and gateware supporting various FPGA vendors, families and devices.

The Missing Link Electronics DPDK Driver for the Corundum mqnic now enables a fully open source development environment for high-performance network processing research. This may involve new hardware software partitioning as, for the first time, both the hardware and the software side are available as open source.

The driver is available for multiple dpdk-stable versions 22.11, 21.11 and 20.11 and supports multiple interfaces per device. It has been tested against corundum version 0965c77 using a ZCU106 implementation featuring 2x 10 GbE interfaces and a custom Fidus Sidewinder-100 implementation featuring 8x 10G interfaces. The tests are based on the DPDK forwarding example and an iperf client and server running on two additional machines, connected to one of the network interfaces implemented by corundum, each.

US Patent 11,695,708 for Deterministic Real-Time Multi-Protocol Heterogeneous Packet-Based Transport

July 4, 2023Patent

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed Missing Link Electronics the US Patent 11,695,708 for Deterministic Real-Time Multi-Protocol Heterogeneous Packet-Based Transport a technology that finds a wide range of application in automotive networking, factory automation and robotics, and 5G Radio campus networks.

Berlin 6G Conference 2023

June 24, 20236G

Berlin 6G Conference is the annual networking event of the German 6G Program, organized by the 6G Platform Germany, will take place at the Berlin Congress Center (BCC) from June 27-29, 2023.

The 6G Platform Germany is an R&D initiative with a total funding of €700 million. One of the core topics is the combination of a secure radio and sensing, so-called Integrated Communication and Sensing (ICAS) with aims to develop such a combination for communication and sensing of the environment and to integrate it into a joint system for the future mobile radio standard 6G.

MLE actively contributes to the 6G-ICAS4Mobility project.