Course pages 2011–12
Schedule - Hardware
Unless otherwise noted, all deliverables are due at midnight.
| Milestone | Time Alotted | Due Date | Deliverable(s) |
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| Implement four port hard-wired switch | 2 weeks | Mon 23-Jan | Email summarizing your progress getting the tools set up: Simulation, Synthesis, and running tests on the hardware. |
| Wed 25-Jan | Operational input arbiter (submit archive of project directory) | ||
| Wed 1-Feb | 1. Working four-port non-learning switch (bit file and archive of
project directory) 2. First version of the Hardware Design document (architecture) 3. Test summary |
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| Implement IP router, software integration and testing of IP router | 5 weeks | Wed 8-Feb | 1. Implement basic packet counter registers 2. Add a written/drawn design of the Output Port Lookup module to your design document |
| Wed 15-Feb | 1. Verification section of the Hardware Design Document 2. Ability to forward packets to/from software 3. Verify and update TTL/IP checksum |
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| Wed 22-Feb | 1. Verify the MAC address of all received packets 2. Lookup destination IP addresses in a lookup table. Forward matching packets to CPU instead of processing in normal forwarding path. 3. Interoperability testing section added to design document 4. HW+SW: Initial Proposal of Advanced Feature |
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| Wed 29-Feb | 1. Implement remaining functionality, including routing and ARP
tables 2. HW+SW: Final Proposal of Advanced Feature |
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| Wed 7-Mar | 1. Email update on progress (1 for each team) 2. A tarball of your design (no dump files or packet_data directories please!). |
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| Advanced Feature Development and Router Interoperation | 2 weeks effective (*) | Wed 14-Mar | 1. Email update on progress (1 for each team). 2. Updated hardware design document (including advanced feature section). |
| Sun 22-Apr-2010 | 1. tar.gz file of your working directory including src and verif.
(but no dump files, please!) 2. Updated Hardware Design Document with your added functionality. |
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| Presentations/Demonstrations | Wed 25-Apr-2010 | Presentations and Demonstrations will be in FW11 on the 25th of April. A hot buffet is available from 6pm, presentations will start at 7pm. |
(*) You are expected to commit the equivalent of one in-term week worth of work to this module over the Easter vacation. No less than 10 Hours between the 15th of March, 2012 and the deadline 22nd of April, 2012.