TCP/IP Stack Design Using Vivado HLS

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Xilinx Vivado 2018.1
• License for Xilinx 10G MAC IP
• Linux OS

Supported boards (out of the box)

• Xilinx VC709
• Xilinx VCU118
• Alpha Data ADM-PCIE-7V3

Installation

Make sure that Vivado and Vivado HLS are in your PATH. Use version 2018.1

Navigate to the hls directory:

cd hls

Execute the script generate the HLS IP cores for your board:

./generate_hls vc709

For the VCU118 run

./generate_hls vcu118

Navigate to the projects directory:

cd ../projects

Create the example project for your board.

For the Xilinx VC709:

vivado -mode batch -source create_vc709_proj.tcl

For the Alpha DATA ADM-PCIE-7V3:

vivado -mode batch -source reate_adm7v3_proj.tcl

For the Xilinx VCU118:

vivado -mode batch -source create_vcu118_proj.tcl

After the previous command executed, a Vivado project will be created and the Vivado GUI is started.

Click "Generate Bitstream" to generate a bitstream for the FPGA.

Testing the example project

The default configuration deploys a TCP echo server and a UDP iperf client. The default IP address the board is 10.1.212.209. Make sure the testing machine conencted to the FPGA board is in the same subnet 10.1.212.*

As an intial connectivity test ping the FPGA board by running

ping 10.1.212.209

After reprogramming the FPGA the first ping message is lost due to a missing ARP entry in the ARP table. However, the FPGA should reply to all following ping messages.

For the TCP echo server you can use netcat:

echo 'hello world' | netcat -q 1 11.1.212.209 7

Alternatively, you can use the echoping linux commandline tool.

For the TCP and UDP iperf test, see here.

Configuration

Coming soon

Publications

• D. Sidler, G. Alonso, M. Blott, K. Karras et al., Scalable 10Gbps TCP/IP Stack Architecture for Reconfigurable Hardware, in FCCM’15, Paper, Slides

• D. Sidler, Z. Istvan, G. Alonso, Low-Latency TCP/IP Stack for Data Center Applications, in FPL'16, Paper

Citation

If you use the TCP/IP stack in your project please cite one of the following papers and/or link to the github project:

@INPROCEEDINGS{sidler2015tcp, 
	author={D. Sidler and G. Alonso and M. Blott and K. Karras and others}, 
	booktitle={FCCM'15}, 
	title={{Scalable 10Gbps TCP/IP Stack Architecture for Reconfigurable Hardware}}, 
}
@INPROCEEDINGS{sidler2016lowlatencytcp, 
	author={D. Sidler and Z. Istvan and G. Alonso}, 
	booktitle={FPL'16}, 
	title={{Low-Latency TCP/IP Stack for Data Center Applications}}, 
}

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