SOC-E

Overview

HPS implements the High-availability Seamless Redundancy and Parallel Redundancy Protocol (HSR and PRP, IEC 62439-3 Clause 5 and 4 respectively) Edition 4.0 protocols for Reliable Ethernet communications providing zero recovery time.

It is a full hardware solution that can be implemented in different FPGA families, including low-cost versions. It is a flexible solution for the Electric sector equipment that require to be connected to HSR rings, PRP Lans or to operate as network bridges.

Key Features

Zero Recovery Time Redundancy Protocol Support
The IP core implements HSR and PRP redundancy protocols (IEC 62439-3) providing seamless Ethernet redundancy.
Lowest Latency in HSR
Thanks to the implementation of cut-through between ring ports.
High-performance
Up-to 1G interfaces.
Fast & Smooth Integration
Fast & smooth Integration: GUI available for some FPGA vendor tools (i.e., AMD Vivado™ Design Suite) included as part of the product deliverable.
Evaluation Version Available
Encrypted, time-limited version available.

Technical Specifications

Communication Interfaces
- Integrated 10M/100M/1000M MACs for 10/100 Mbps and 1 Gbps PHY interface rates to use with any PHY interface type (e.g. MII, RMII, GMII, RGMII) depending on application
- Compatible with SGMII (Serial Gigabit Media Independent Interface) or QSGMII (Quad Serial Gigabit Media Independent Interface) PHY interfaces throughout an internal GMII based connection to AMD LogiCORE™ SGMII IP core and LogiCORE™ QSGMII IP core respectively
- 10/100/1000 Mbps AXI-Stream interface with a data width of 8 bits @ 125 MHz
Redundancy
- High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR). It can operate in any of the following modes, which are changeable at runtime:
- Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP). It can operate in any of the following modes, which are changeable at runtime:
- In HSR mode, the RedBox can work on one of the following three modes:
- Configurable size Redundancy Proxy Node Table to keep information about all nodes that are attached to the interlink port
- Configurable size Redundancy Duplicate Discard Table used to discard duplicate frames received from redundant ports
Traffic Management
- Cut-through forwarding between redundant ring ports for a very low forwarding latency independent from frame size
- MAC Level Ingress Frame Filtering based of Destination MAC address and/or Ethertype on per port basis
- Custom Destination MAC filtering and forwarding (up to 16 MAC addresses can be filtered)
- Custom Source MAC filtering and forwarding (up to 10 MAC addresses can be filtered)
- Standard Frame size support (1518) or Jumbo frames up to 9 kByte (depends on memory availability)

Time Synchronization
- IEEE1588 (PTPv2): IEEE1588 Stateless Transparent Clock (SLTC) functionality at layer-2 and peer-to-peer (P2P)
- IEEE1588 Hybrid Clock (HC) slave-only support
- IRIG-B Master support
Quality of Service
- QoS support with up to 8 priority queues per port (synthesis option)
- Traffic prioritization based on Strict priority scheduling algorithm
- MAC Level Ingress Frame Rate Limiting on per port basis
Network Management & Monitoring
- Per port MAC and switch statistics for managing and debugging purposes
- Wide range of management interfaces to access control and statistics registers (selectable at synthesis time)
- I2C master interface for external device configuration (i.e. an EEPROM memory with non-volatile configuration)

Technical Support, Verification & Deliverables

Technical Support

IP Licenses are provided along with a Technical Support package that ensures a direct communication channel with our highly experienced support engineers. This is vastly valued during customer product development & integration phases.

Verification

All our IP Cores are rigorously tested, hardware-validated and verified in real-life environments. A 3-phase based IP product verification is applied:

Entity/Block-oriented simulation
Global-oriented simulation
In-hardware validation

Deliverables

Encrypted/Source RTL code
Software components: Drivers, configuration API & SW stacks
Documentation (IP Core and Software components)
(Optional) Networking Testbench Suite (NTS)
(Optional) AMD Vivado™ design suite example design

Evaluation & Design-in Kit

The SMARTmpsoc and SMARTzynq Brick provide an out-of-the-box set-up that allows plug & play evaluation of HSR and PRP protocols. The evaluation board is provided with a preloaded firmware that includes an instance of SOC-E IP Core(s) plus additional software components that are executed in the processing system (CPU) of the platform. Linux OS is loaded in the evaluation firmware.

This hardware can also be used later as a development platform, what allows to shorten the development phase.

SMARTmpsoc Brick consists of the following package:
- SMARTmpsoc module (1x)
- Carrier board (1x)
- Reference firmware (predefined image) preloaded into non-volatile eMMC storage (1x)
- Power supply (1x)
- Fibre/Copper SFP modules (optional, purchased separately)

SMARTzynq Brick consists of the following package:
- SMARTzynq module (1x)
- Carrier board (1x)
- Reference firmware (predefined image) preloaded into non-volatile microSD card storage (1x)
- Power supply (1x)
- Fibre/Copper SFP modules (optional, purchased separately)

MEZU-A7G8 brick consists of the following package:
- MEZU-A7G8 module (1x)
- Carrier board (1x)
- Reference firmware (predefined image) preloaded into non-volatile flash memory storage (1x)
- Power supply (1x)
- Fibre/Copper SFP modules (optional, purchased separately)

NTS

FunctionalityVHDL automated testbench for SOC-E networking IP Cores
Test PlansPre-defined test plan & User-defined tests
IP Core CompatibilityETSN, MTSN, TGES, HPS, MES, MRS
EDA Tool CompatibilityAMD Vivado™ Design Suite & Aldec Riviera-PRO™ (recommended) and more

MRS

Functionality HSR/PRP redundancy + Legacy ethernet ports
Communication Interfaces RMII, MII, GMII, RGMII or *Serialized (SGMII, QSGMII, etc…)
Port Speed 10M/100M/1G
Synchronization Stateless Transparent Clock (SLTC) with P2P delay mechanism
Redundancy HSR, PRP, DLR and MRP
Other FeaturesQoS, IEEE 802.1Q tag-based and Port-based VLANs, Spanning-Tree protocol, IEEE802.1X, cut-through in ring ports (HSR)