PipelineC4d ago

@nlnet NLnet Foundation funded open source WireGuard router in FPGA. Featuring PipelineC for cryptography blocks 🤓

https://github.com/JulianKemmerer/PipelineC/wiki/Example:-ChaCha20%E2%80%90Poly1305-for-WireGuard

#hardware #fpga #rtl #hdl #hls #verilog #vhdl #cryptography #wireguard #pipelinec

Show threadCan Lehmann
@pipelinec Congrats! This sounds pretty cool. Are they also planning to tape this out at some point or is it mainly FPGA focussed for now?
Mar 13 at 7:23pmWeb
Show threadCan Lehmann4d ago
@pipelinec Does it even make sense to tapeout this kind of thing? Or do the protocols change often enough that reconfigurability is required? (I am definitely not a networking person, so I don't really have the intuition here)
Show threadPipelineC4d ago
@CanLehmann great question - it was mentioned as a 'what if someday someone did' but no concrete plans atm for ASICs. Reminds me of when microsoft has some networking FPGAs in datacenters and weighed ASIC vs them and needed to consider the years difference in dev time etc