{"id":7971,"date":"2026-08-10T06:52:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missinglinkelectronics.com\/devzone\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2026-09-07T05:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:52:10","slug":"npap-evaluation-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missinglinkelectronics.com\/devzone\/datasheet\/npap-evaluation-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"MLE NPAP Evaluation Choices MLE offers multiple ways to evaluate and benchmark MLE NPAP: A \u201cDevelopers License\u201d is a highly discounted extended evaluation license which gives you full source code access to integrate and run NPAP and NPAP ERDs within your target hardware. Free-of-charge we provide so-called NPAP Evaluation Reference Designs (ERD) implemented on off-the-shelf hardware. These are great for evaluating the functionality and the performance of MLE NPAP, when running in off-the-shelf FPGA hardware. These are also great as a reference design when integrating MLE NPAP into your system. In MLE&#8217;s NPAP Evaluation you will find an in depth guide of how to evaluate NPAP using the ERDs. The objective of an ERD is to facilitate design-in via a complete design project running on selected FPGA boards. TCP\/UDP\/IP NPAP Evaluation Design Each ERD typically instantiates the full stack including MAC, Ethernet, IPv4 (with ICMP and IGMP), plus one or more TCP session instances, the UDP block, a Netperf\/Netserver implementation and an Network Impairment generator in programmable logic.&nbsp; Here some exemplary setups from MLE\u2019s NPAP Test Lab: A more in-depth documentation of the workings of the ERD and the support IPs is available under license. Please contact your MLE sales representative or contact us for more information. Contact Us<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missinglinkelectronics.com\/devzone\/datasheet\/npap-evaluation-choices\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLE NPAP Evaluation Choices MLE offers multiple ways to evaluate and benchmark MLE NPAP: In MLE&#8217;s NPAP Evaluation you will find an in depth guide of how to evaluate NPAP using the ERDs. The objective of an ERD is to facilitate design-in via a complete design project running on selected FPGA boards. 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