CI-ADDO-EN: NetFPGA Community Infrastructure Development and Operations of the NetFPGA

NetFPGA平台使学生和研究人员能够使用现场可编程门阵列（FPGA）硬件轻松构建和部署高性能网络系统。FPGA逻辑用于以线速处理数据包，而在连接的主机上运行的软件实现控制功能。主要研究人员（PI）于2008年1月开始测试计划，并通过向低成本的第三方制造商提供源-源原理图和印刷电路板设计的副本，使NetFPGA硬件可用于任何学校。为了降低硬件成本，他们要求半导体公司捐赠NetFPGA上使用的组件。今天，电路板上的每个主要组件都是由Xilinx、Broadcom、Micron和Cypress捐赠的。PI还在NetFPGA.org网站上免费提供NetFPGA的开源软件、gateware、课件和参考设计。更广泛的影响社区正在不断壮大，并提供反馈，创建新课程，并为NetFPGA创建新应用。展望未来，PI希望继续他们的推广计划，包括在EPSCoR各州的骨干网络、其他研究实验室和教室中部署NetFPGA硬件。在可能的情况下，他们筹集了工业基金，以便将NetFPGA系统捐赠给资金不足的学校。智力成就通过这个奖项，PI计划做五件事：（1）支付专业人员继续NetFPGA计划的运营费用，（2）为社区设计和开发新的参考设计和应用程序，（3）在许多学校，特别是在EPSCoR州，获得并部署NetFPGA，和国家骨干网，（4）与社区合作，在三年内建立一个自我支持的用户社区，（5）探索设计的NetFPGA-10 G？10 Gb/s版本的平台。

The NetFPGA platform makes it easy for students and researchers to build and deploy high-performance networking systems using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware. FPGA logic is used to process packets at line-rate, while software running on an attached host computer implements control functions. The principal investigators (PIs) began the beta program in January of 2008 and made the NetFPGA hardware available to any school by providing a copy of the source-source schematic and printed circuit board design to a low-cost 3rd party manufacturer. To keep the hardware cost low, they asked semiconductor companies to donate the components used on the NetFPGA. Today, every major component on the board is donated as a gift by Xilinx, Broadcom, Micron, and Cypress. The PIs also made the open-source software, gateware, courseware, and reference designs for the NetFPGA freely available on the NetFPGA.org website. Broader Impact The community is growing and contributing back feedback, creating new courses, and creating new applications for the NetFPGA. Going forward, the PIs want to continue their outreach program to include deployment of NetFPGA hardware in backbone networks, other research laboratories, and classrooms in EPSCoR states. Where possible, they have raised industrial funds so they can donate NetFPGA systems to under-funded schools.Intellectual Merit Through this award the PIs plan to do five things: (1) Pay for professional staff to continue the operation of the NetFPGA program, (2) Design and develop new reference designs and applications for the community, (3) Acquire and deploy the NetFPGA in many schools, particularly in EPSCoR states, and in national backbone networks, (4) Work with the community to create a self-supporting user-community within three years, and (5) Explore the design of a NetFPGA-10G ? a 10Gb/s version of the platform.