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Open Hardware Ethernet Switch project, part 1

f my longest-running projects has been an open hardware Ethernet switch. This has been one of the key driving forces behind many of my other projects, such as ngscopeclient and the high speed probes.

I knew I wanted to put 10GbE on the switch whenever I finally got back to it, and didn’t expect to be able to afford a many-GHz scope any time soon, so I started looking at alternative approaches to validate SI at these speeds. My open hardware 16 GHz probe (which probably deserves a post or series of its own) is now essentially done and ramping up an initial PVT run, hopefully I can actually make them in quantity and offer to the public in the coming months. I also started dreaming up a roadmap for a whole family of networking equipment under the randomly generated umbrella name LATENTx, using colors for sub-projects (vaguely inspired by the Lockheed HAVE BLUE).

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