Xilinx and AMIRIX Announce Breakthrough Technology for Metro and Edge Equipment Markets

Strategic Insights -

San Jose-based Xilinx, Inc., a world leader in programmable logic solutions, and AMIRIX Systems, a leading provider of embedded systems design services, have collaborated to create a groundbreaking technology reference design for the metro and edge equipment markets. This innovation addresses the needs of real-world networking and telecom applications by offering a flexible solution with enhanced queue management capabilities. The reference design leverages the Virtex-II Pro platform's high-performance FPGA fabric, embedded memory, and SelectIO(TM) parallel I/O technology.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Queue Manager Reference Design is a free and fully documented solution that enables queue management support from 256 to 64K per flow queues and segmentation and reassembly (SAR).
  • The design incorporates class-based Weighted Random Early Discard (WRED) to prevent queue congestion, providing a high-performance traffic management platform.
  • The solution utilizes the Virtex-II Pro platform's flexibility to configure the fabric Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) as 64 or 256 bytes.
  • The queue manager interfaces directly with Xilinx's mesh fabric reference design (via LocalLink), enhancing customization capabilities for real-world networking and telecom applications.
  • The partnership between AMIRIX and Xilinx has resulted in an effective delivery of a customized traffic management solution.
  • Pricing and availability information for the Queue Manager Reference Design is not provided in the source material.

Statistics:

  • The Queue Manager Reference Design supports queue management from 256 to 64K per flow queues.
  • The design enables segmentation and reassembly (SAR) capabilities.
  • The Virtex-II Pro platform's FPGA fabric delivers high-performance traffic management.
  • The queue manager interfaces directly with Xilinx's mesh fabric reference design via LocalLink.
  • The Xilinx eSP web portal has experienced over seven million visits since its introduction.
  • AMIRIX possesses over 30 years of experience in custom embedded systems design services.

Sources:

  • Xilinx, Inc. press release, "Xilinx and AMIRIX Systems Collaborate on Breakthrough Technology for Metro and Edge Equipment Markets," March 1 (no source year).
  • AMIRIX Systems website, "AMIRIX Overview," (no source date).
  • Xilinx website, "About Xilinx," (no source date).
  • Xilinx website, "Xilinx eSP Web Portal," (no source date).