Low latency verilog ethernet for Nasdaq HFT FPGA

RTL implementation of a low latency ethernet interface for the purposes of the HFT FPGA project.

In order to help acheive a lower latency all features not stricktly necessary for our use case will be stripped out. External users should assume this project will be re-usable for a different use case or that it is compliant with 802.3.

PHY

IP for both 10GBASE-R and 4 lane 40GBASE-R, see submodule.

MAC

Features :

• Support VLAN tagging

Assumptions :

• Full duplex interface only

UDP

rx data stream

Features :

• IPv4, no support for framgmentation

• Support options, discard there data

• only supports UDP, ignors all other packet types

Assumptions :

• UDP packets containing MoldUDP64 datagrams will never be framgmented

tx retransmission request

Features :

• IPv4

• all data will be packaged into an UDP packet

• all packets will be destined to the same destination

• No backpressure will be applied on UDP data provider

Assumptions :

• UDP data provider will transmit data without holes or bubbles

TCP

RTL implementation of a single socket TCP module.

Features :

• IPv4

Assumptions :

• ITCH server is located at a single designation address

• There will only be 1 connection alive at a time

Common features and assumptions

Features and assumptions shared amoung all ethernet interface.

Features :

• IP is staticly defined

• Gateway MAC is statically defined

Assumptions :

• Remote server address will never change

• I can send an ack faster than I can receive new packets

• No packet segmentation

Roadmap

Under developpement :

• PCS 10G 16b wide data path

• PCS 40G 256b wide data path

• MAC 10G 16b/32b/64b wide data path

• IPv4 16b

• IPv4 64b

• UDP 16b

• UDP

• TCP 16b