Bluepsec Examples
Introduction
We're currently building a 64 node cubic FPGA based system using Terasic DE4 boards which contain Altera Stratix IV parts. Below is a demonstration of an initial four board configuration. The renderer and the inter-board communications hardware was all written in Bluespec. High-level control is via NIOS processors running on each board.
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The PCIe to SATA adapter board
We've built an adapter board which breaks out the PCIe channels to SATA links for board-to-board communications. These links happily run at over 6Gb/s per channel.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Altera and Teraisc for their support and to EPSRC for funding some for the equipment.