NetFPGA SUME TCAM IPs

Follow the instruction below to create a TCAM IP for NetFPGA SUME platform step by step. The TCAM IPs created by the instruction is based on SRL only to support Ternary mode. More detailed information of the TCAM can be found on xapp1151_Param_CAM.pdf. TCAM IPs on SUME platform are separated into TCAM and CAM, but they are almost same and share the libraries.

1. At first, users need to find and download xapp1151 module on Xilinx web site. After searching xapp1151, xapp1151_Param_CAM.zip and related documents can be downloaded from the web site.

2. Copy xapp1151_Param_CAM.zip into the NetFPGA-SUME-live/lib/hw/xilinx/cores/tcam_v1_0_0/ and go to the tcam_v1_0_0/ directory.

3. Run make update to decompress and update the xapp1151 libraries.

4. Run make sim and find what is the simulation result. Before run make sim, source Vivado license to run the tool commands.

5. Run make to create IP.

If it is succeeded, now users can call the TCAM IP in the project for block design and IP creation.

To create a CAM IP for SUME platform, go to NetFPGA-SUME-live/lib/hw/xilinx/cores/cam_v1_0_0/ and repeat the steps 1 to 5 as above.

(Note : The make clean command, in the NetFPGA-SUME-live/ folder, will delete the files needed for the TCAM IP core. You need to run again make into the tcam_v1_0_0/cam_v1_0_0 folder, to create the IP. )