Diego Reforgiato — новинки

The NetFPGA platform enables students and researchers to build high-performance networking systems using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware. A new version of the NetFPGA platform has been developed and is available for use by the academic community. The NetFPGA platform has modular interfaces that enable development of complex hardware designs by integration of simple building blocks. FPGA logic is used to implement the core data processing functions while software running on an attached host computer or embedded cores within the device implement control functions. Reference designs and component libraries have been developed for the CS344 course at Stanford University and an open-source Verilog reference design is available for download from the project website.

In recent years the performance of the PC have increased significantly, thanks to new technological developments; but, while these developments lead to an increased power, on the other side there is a very important issue: the cooling of the PC. This consequence is due to the fact that the increased power of the components is directly proportional to their temperature, resulting from the overheating of their electrical resistance. The reduction has many advantages in the level of activity of our pc. First of all, the energy conservation automatically results in savings and environmental resources resulting from the decrease of activity. In addition, a second advantage lies in the fact that it can reduce the activity and increases the life of computers, saving, for example, the processor useless cycles, and reducing the temperature of the components.

The field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been historically and fairly considered as a key factor for developing innovative control systems and services, which can help in reducing and monitoring third-party energy wastes and in achieving high levels of efficiency. In such context, different projects considered and/or developed networked technologies in order to build smart environments (e.g., houses, buildings) that are also energy-aware. At present, the role of ICT is becoming of paramount importance in addressing better energy efficiency in the energy production and distribution sector, as well as in fostering energy-awareness in all aspects of production and services. It would be odd that ICT would not apply the same concepts to itself.