A Flexible Frame-Oriented Host-FPGA Communication Framework for Software Defined Wireless Network

Jun Liu, Zhiwei Li, Boyan Ding, Haoyang Wu, Tao Wang

Abstract: FPGA becomes more and more attractive as accelerator platform. Many FPGA accelerators use frame oriented transmission. As there is no standard frame-oriented Host-FPGA communication framework, FPGA accelerator developers have to write significant amount of code on both FPGA side and Host side. In this paper, we present a frame-oriented high-performance Host-FPGA PCIe / USB communication framework EPEE 3.0, implements the communication library using Xilinx Kintex-7 with PCIe Gen2 X8 and USB 3.0. Simulation shows that EPEE 3.0 achieves a high throughput and can be easily used by FPGA developers.