{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Oxide and Friends","title":"The Sidecar Switch","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/c80a79d8\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4485,"description":"Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 29th, 2021\nThe Sidecar Switch\nWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for November 29th, 2021.\nIn addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Arjen Roodselaar; other speakers on November 29th included Rick Altherr, Simeon Miteff, MattSci, Jason Ozolins, Thomas and Edwin Peer. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)\nSome of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:\n[@3:04](https://youtu.be/yl24yHlLRy0?t=184) Arjen’s announcement about the rack switch\nCadence Allegro PCB editor\n[@11:35](https://youtu.be/yl24yHlLRy0?t=695) Should we do our own switch? “We’re just going to tweak existing designs…”\nIntel Tofino 2 pageBarefoot Networks wiki\nP4 language wiki\n[@24:07](https://youtu.be/yl24yHlLRy0?t=1447) What makes this chip a beast?\n[@33:24](https://youtu.be/yl24yHlLRy0?t=2004) Cable backplane, sleds\n[@37:11](https://youtu.be/yl24yHlLRy0?t=2231) Sidecar\n[@38:52](https://youtu.be/yl24yHlLRy0?t=2332) Management network (out of band) NC-SI network controller sideband interface wiki > Rick: A lot of the BMC style management functionality just > kinda got tacked on to PC systems.\n[@48:36](https://youtu.be/yl24yHlLRy0?t=2916) SDN software-defined networking wikiNCI National Computational Infrastructure (Australia) wiki\nNetwork function virtualization wiki\n[@55:12](https://youtu.be/yl24yHlLRy0?t=3312) The tofino simulator\n[@59:51](https://youtu.be/yl24yHlLRy0?t=3591) Trust model, root of trust, service processor\n[@1:02:31](https://youtu.be/yl24yHlLRy0?t=3751) Can the switch run independent of the PCIe host?\n[@1:08:35](https://youtu.be/yl24yHlLRy0?t=4115) The journey. The time scale of these signaling components. Heat sinks and practice boards\nHappy Hanukkah!\nIf we got something wrong or missed something, please file...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/cVYTzMGAZ_7gNn2i7iJYSuWlQOM4wHdJAzEuWrnLo9A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OGI3/NjA5NWY4Yjc4NzE0/ZGI5ZmMzZmY4MjFi/YThiYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}