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XGE Silicon Stack Ethernet - Designed for the most
demanding Real-Time applications
XGE Silicon Stack Ethernet provides TRUE high performance
10 Gbit and 1 Gbit solutions
  • Performance and Flexibility
  • Silicon Stack protocol offload
  • Flexible Protocol Engine
  • Full line rate throughput
  • Very low host CPU overhead
  • Ultra low latency & rock solid determinism
  • 100% standard Ethernet
 XGE "Silicon Stack" Ethernet
 vs. Software Stack
Per Ethernet port on an embedded-class host processor   Software Stack
1Gb 10Gb
Silicon Stack
1Gb 10Gb
Throughput
max sustained rate

40 MBytes/s
varies with protocol

250 MBytes/s

2500 MBytes/s

Host Overhead

Very High

Very Low

Latency 125 µsec 12 µsec 5 µsec
Determinism
Typical variation
Horrible
±200 µsec
Rock Solid
±1 µsec
Reliability
Under Load
Poor under heavy load Excellent under all load conditions, no dropped data

XGE Silicon Stack Ethernet provides a high performance, reliable, and cost-effective Real-Time Ethernet solution that is 100% compatible with standard Ethernet infrastructures.


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