[casper] Netronome network processors

Hello all The KAT offices were visited by Netronome last week. They have acquired Intel's network processor technology and design ASICs containing 10GbE MACs with lots of little processor cores (40). There's also an onboard ARM processor for control and monitoring, some onboard cache memory

Re: [casper] X-engine resource requirements

Hi, Glenn, One thing you didn't mention is bandwidth/data rate. This matters because it affects how many inputs you have per F board (i.e. iBOB or ROACH). The PAPER correlator processes 100 MHz of bandwidth, so it uses 2 quad ADCs (i.e. 8 inputs) per F board (currently iBOBs, but eventually