• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: High-Performance Time Server Core for FPGA System-on-Chip
  • Beteiligte: Viejo, Julian; Juan-Chico, Jorge; Bellido, Manuel J.; Ruiz-de-Clavijo, Paulino; Guerrero, David; Ostua, Enrique; Cano, German
  • Erschienen: MDPI AG, 2019
  • Erschienen in: Electronics
  • Umfang: 528
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.3390/electronics8050528
  • ISSN: 2079-9292
  • Schlagwörter: Electrical and Electronic Engineering ; Computer Networks and Communications ; Hardware and Architecture ; Signal Processing ; Control and Systems Engineering
  • Zusammenfassung: <jats:p>This paper presents the complete design and implementation of a low-cost, low-footprint, network time protocol server core for field programmable gate arrays. The core uses a carefully designed modular architecture, which is fully implemented in hardware using digital circuits and systems. Most remarkable novelties introduced are a hardware-optimized timekeeping algorithm implementation, and a full-hardware protocol stack and automatic network configuration. As a result, the core is able to achieve similar accuracy and performance to typical high-performance network time protocol server equipment. The core uses a standard global positioning system receiver as time reference, has a small footprint and can easily fit in a low-range field-programmable chip, greatly scaling down from previous system-on-chip time synchronization systems. Accuracy and performance results show that the core can serve hundreds of thousands of network time clients with negligible accuracy degradation, in contrast to state-of-the-art high-performance time server equipment. Therefore, this core provides a valuable time server solution for a wide range of emerging embedded and distributed network applications such as the Internet of Things and the smart grid, at a fraction of the cost and footprint of current discrete and embedded solutions.</jats:p>
  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>This paper presents the complete design and implementation of a low-cost, low-footprint, network time protocol server core for field programmable gate arrays. The core uses a carefully designed modular architecture, which is fully implemented in hardware using digital circuits and systems. Most remarkable novelties introduced are a hardware-optimized timekeeping algorithm implementation, and a full-hardware protocol stack and automatic network configuration. As a result, the core is able to achieve similar accuracy and performance to typical high-performance network time protocol server equipment. The core uses a standard global positioning system receiver as time reference, has a small footprint and can easily fit in a low-range field-programmable chip, greatly scaling down from previous system-on-chip time synchronization systems. Accuracy and performance results show that the core can serve hundreds of thousands of network time clients with negligible accuracy degradation, in contrast to state-of-the-art high-performance time server equipment. Therefore, this core provides a valuable time server solution for a wide range of emerging embedded and distributed network applications such as the Internet of Things and the smart grid, at a fraction of the cost and footprint of current discrete and embedded solutions.</jats:p>
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