This paper presents a proposal of a Gigabit UDP/IP network stack in FPGA, which is the stack of the widely used in VoIP and Video-conference applications. This network node implements the Network, Transport and Link Layer of a traditional stack. This architecture is integrated and developed using Xilinx ISE tool and synthesized to a Spartan-3E FPGA. We show architecture details, timing and area results of a practical prototyping. Also, we compare our prototype and results with other works in terms of area (Xilinx slices), speed (MHz), maximum
Ethernet frame length (bytes) and maximum Ethernet speed (Mbps). Comparing to these works our architecture obtained a intermediate solution in area and is the best implementation in terms of speed (MHz).Index Terms-UDP/IP, network stack, FPGA.
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