10G Ethernet Validation Platform (IPEB) is an evaluation platform intended for validating a variety of RTL cores. The IPEB architecture is optimized for high-density and high- performance logic designs. The rich feature set, based on today's high speed networking technology, allows functional testing of various types of Intellectual Property cores by using two Xilinx Virtex II XC2V3000 FPGAs allowing prototyping an ASIC equivalent of approximately two million gates. The board provides for easy configuration of the FPGA through a JTAG connector or through an EEPROM.

The powerful Net +50 ARM processor controls the device/board functions and monitors the test. The board can validate SPI4, 1G Ethernet cores, PCI, and PCI-X cores apart from 10G Ethernet cores. There is a one 10-Gigabit Optical interface that directly interfaces with the FPGA for testing cores like 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC. Each Virtex FPGA is provided with one high-speed connector that can interface with a daughter card.

The smart device is used to generate traffic and this traffic is translated to Ethernet traffic. The validation platform supports testing of DUT with variable frame length, variable inter frame gap and allows testing of data and status paths of the core. There are test points provided to monitor all critical signals.