40Gbps Ethernet Accelerator Functional Unit (AFU) Design Example User Guide: Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA

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1. About this Document 2. Overview 3. Running the Design Example Tests 4. Using the Design Example as a Platform for Further Evaluation 5. 40Gbps Ethernet AFU Design Example User Guide Archives 6. Document Revision History for 40Gbps Ethernet AFU Design Example User Guide
1. About this Document x
1.1. Intended Audience 1.2. Conventions 1.3. Acronym List 1.4. Acceleration Glossary
2. Overview x
2.1. 40GbE Design Example AFU Hardware 2.2. 40GbE Design Example AFU Software
3. Running the Design Example Tests x
3.1. Setup Prerequisites 3.2. Running 40GbE Internal Loopback Test in Single Intel® PAC System 3.3. Running 40GbE External Loopback Test in Single Intel® PAC System 3.4. Running 40GbE Intel® PAC-to-PAC Test between two connected Intel® PACs
4. Using the Design Example as a Platform for Further Evaluation x
4.1. Prerequisite while Evaluating with the Intel FPGA MAC/PHY IP 4.2. Evaluation with an Alternate MAC/PHY IP
1. About this Document
2. Overview
3. Running the Design Example Tests
4. Using the Design Example as a Platform for Further Evaluation
5. 40Gbps Ethernet AFU Design Example User Guide Archives
6. Document Revision History for 40Gbps Ethernet AFU Design Example User Guide

1.3. Acronym List

Table 2.  Acronyms List
Acronyms Expansion Description
AFU Accelerator Functional Unit Hardware Accelerator implemented in FPGA logic, which offloads a computational operation for an application from the CPU to improve performance.
AF Accelerator Function Compiled Hardware Accelerator image implemented in FPGA logic that accelerates an application. An AFU and associated AFs are also referred as GBS (Green-Bits, Green BitStream) in the Acceleration Stack installation directory tree and in source code comments.
API Application Programming Interface A set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software applications.
ASE AFU Simulation Environment Co-simulation environment that allows you to use the same host application and AF in a simulation environment. ASE is part of the Intel Acceleration Stack for FPGAs.
CCI-P Core Cache Interface CCI-P is the standard interface that AFUs use to communicate with the host.
FIU FPGA Interface Unit FIU is a platform interface layer that acts as a bridge between platform interfaces like PCIe* , UPI, and AFU-side interfaces such as CCI-P.
FIM FPGA Interface Manager The FPGA hardware containing the FPGA Interface Unit (FIU) and external interfaces such as interfaces for memory, and networking.

The FIM is also referred as BBS (Blue-Bits, Blue BitStream) in the Acceleration Stack installation directory tree and in source code comments.

The AF interfaces with the FIM at run time.

NLB Native Loopback The NLB performs reads and writes to the CCI-P link to test connectivity and throughput.
OPAE Open Programmable Acceleration Engine The OPAE is a software framework for managing and accessing AFs. 
HSSI High Speed Serial Interface This is a reference to the multi-gigabit serial transceiver I/O in the FIM and the corresponding interface to the AFU.
PR Partial Reconfiguration The ability to dynamically reconfigure a portion of an FPGA while the remaining FPGA design continues to function.
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