++netpfga section

doc/Background.tex

@@ -488,3 +488,29 @@ eventually will need to support IPv6 and secondly
 IPv6 hosts can address the whole 32 bit IPv4 Internet mapped in
 a single /96 IPv6 network. IPv6 only networks also allow the operators
 to focus on one IP stack.
+% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+\section{\label{background:netfpga}NetFPGA}
+\begin{figure}[h]
+  \includegraphics[scale=0.4]{sumeboard}
+  \centering
+  \caption{NetFPGA Board, \cite{zilberman:_netfp_sume}}
+  \label{fig:netfpga}
+\end{figure}
+The NetFPGA~\cite{zilberman:_netfp_sume}
+is an FPGA card featuring four 10 Gbit/s SFP+ ports. It
+includes the Xilinx Virtex-7 690T FPGA on board, 27 MB of storage,
+allowing to save table data, and 8 GB of DDR3 RAM. The NetFPGA can be
+run inside a host (connected by PCI-E, gen 3) or as a standalone
+card.
+
+It can be used as a ``traditional'' FPGA, with the focus on designing
+the logic. However, the NetFPGA also supports the P4 programming
+language~\cite{netfpga:_p4_netpf_public_github} and thus abstracts
+away the low level logic by providing a higher level interface.
+For the purpose of this thesis we treat the NetFPGA as a standard P4
+target, similar to other available P4
+targets~\cite{networks:_tofin},
+~\cite{networks:_tofin1},
+~\cite{networks:_arist_series}. In particular, we treat the NetFPGA as a
+P4 capable, four port 10 Gbit/s network switch that allows us to
+process packets at line speed.

doc/refs/refs.bib

@@ -61,9 +61,20 @@
 
 @Misc{networks:_tofin,
   author =    {Barefoot Networks},
-  title =     {Tofino2},
+  title =     {Barefoot Tofino2},
   howpublished = {\url{https://barefootnetworks.com/products/brief-tofino-2/}}}
 
+@Misc{networks:_tofin1,
+  author =    {Barefoot Networks},
+  title =     {Barefoot Tofino},
+  howpublished = {\url{https://www.barefootnetworks.com/products/brief-tofino/}}}
+
+@Misc{networks:_arist_series,
+  author =    {Arista Networks},
+  title =     {Arista 7170 Series},
+  howpublished = {\url{https://www.arista.com/en/products/7170-series}},
+  note =      {Requested on 2019-08-21}}
+
 @Misc{lutchansky:_tayga_simpl_nat64_linux,
   author =    {Nathan Lutchansky},
   title =     {TAYGA - Simple, no-fuss NAT64 for Linux},
@@ -181,3 +192,8 @@
   title =     {Should I use Python 2 or Python 3 for my development activity?},
   howpublished = {\url{https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3}},
   note =      {Requested on 2019-08-19}}
+
+@Misc{zilberman:_netfp_sume,
+  author =    {Noa Zilberman and Yury Audzevich and G. Adam Covington and Andrew W. Moore},
+  title =     {NetFPGA SUME: Toward 100 Gbps as Research Commodity},
+  howpublished = {IEEE Micro, vol.34, no.5, pp.32-41, Sept.-Oct. 2014, doi: 10.1109/MM.2014.61}}