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Re:Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare by willglynn on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:18AM (#19747728)
If you want an FPGA tied to a SolarFlare NIC, that's been available for years as a finished product under the name "Application Onload Engine". News article:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/08/solarflare_applicat...

Whitepapers:

* https://solarflare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SF-114649-...

* https://solarflare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SF-114903-...

Re:Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare by 1e-9 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:57AM (#19748141)
Yes, but the Solarflare ApplicationOnload Engine has several issues (e.g. limited Altera FPGA, inflexible architecture, logic on a separate ASIC that must communicate with the FPGA, and still uses a host CPU for the networking stack), which should be resolved by fully integrating with the Xilinx Ultrascale+ technology and putting all networking and decision logic on one chip. The result should be a much faster, much more flexible, and much more powerful solution.