Anic-4000

The ANIC-4000 is an 8 lane PCI Express Adapter featuring 4 Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces, using a quad SFP cage to support optical or copper pluggable modules. The ANIC-4000 features state of the art FPGA technology and a pipelined architecture as illustrated in Figure 1. The ANIC-4000 design is optimized for offloading the Host CPU in packet monitoring and processing applications that demand zero packet loss and wire speed processing. The programmable and modular design of the ANIC enables it to be easily customized to accommodate a wide range of user defined value add functions.

Inbound Packet Processing functions include packet classification, filtering and transport protocol monitoring. The ANIC applies five-tuple packet classification, using a DRAM based hash table. The ANIC features Berkeley Packet Filtering (BPF) Micro-engines for user-customizable packet filtering. The ANIC can passively monitor transport protocols such as UDP, TCP, PGM or proprietary protocols on a per connection basis. All captured packets are time stamped to a resolution of 8 ns and steered at full line rate via DMA into a user configurable set of Ring Buffers.

Outbound Packet Processing functions include a high performance Transmit DMA mechanism from multiple host memory based buffers and user customizable Protocol Processing. The ANIC is uniquely architected to faithfully replay captured traffic in traffic generator and simulator applications.

To obtain a data sheet on the Anic-4000 please email:info@accoladetechnology.com