Hi,
In ERR004512 (ENET: 1 Gb Ethernet MAC (ENET) system limitation) I read about a problem with the Gigabit Ethernet interface.
Now I am not sure if the i.MX6 is suitable for my application:
-The i.MX6Q receives a datastram over Gigabit Ethernet. 1000 Byte each 40µs (200MBit/s) from a FPGA, just raw ethernet.
-This stream is transfered into DDR3-RAM to be buffered for some seconds (if possible by DMA).
-Task1 loads the stream from DDR3-RAM (if possible by DMA) to analyze the data (in worst case the full 200MBit/s).
-Task2 loads the stream from DDR3-RAM (if possible by DMA) to analyze the data (in worst case the full 200MBit/s).
-Task3 transfers the results from Task1 and Task2 into DDR3-RAM (in worst case the full 200MBit/s), where the data is buffered.
-Each 40µs 1000Byte from DDR3-RAM must be sent from Gigabit Ethernet to the FPGA.
This means, Gigabit Ethernet has to transfer 200MBit/s Full Duplex.
So 200MBit/s RX + 200MBit/s TX = 400MBit/s, what is almost the limit of the Errata.
Will the i.MX6 GbE be able to to transfer this highspeed data stream?
Where can I get more information about the GbE's limitations? Where does the bottleneck result from?
As you can see, the data must be transferred many times from and to DDR3-RAM.
Will the i.MX6 be able to do this? Would these transfers have negative effects to the GbE?
I will use a RTOS on the i.MX6Q.
Regards,
Norbert
