(MAPLD Conference)
D6: David C. Hoffmeister(1,3) and Patrick W. Dowd (2,3)
1: Department of Electrical Engineering,
State University of New York at Buffalo
2: National Security Agency, Fort Meade, MD
3: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park
"An FPGA-based Network Interface for WDM Gigabit Networks"
A network interface (NI) for wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) gigabit networks is presented that is based on field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. This NI is being used for Project Lightning, a dynamically reconfigurable WDM network testbed project for supercomputer interconnection. The NI is implemented using FPGAs to allow experimentation involving the media access protocol and reconfiguration control for Lightning. This reprogrammability will also allow the NI to be used as a general testbed platform for WDM gigabit networks. This work was supported by the U.S Department of Defense, Laboratory for Physical Sciences, College Park, Maryland.
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