I would like to accelerate a data conversion task. We just send a stream of data to converter that produses a response stream. Actually, this converter is an emulator of a system we are going to simulate efficiently accelerating simulation task. As the goal is a number of simulations per time unit, the high performance channels are needed to communicate between application running on PC and emulator running on FPGA. The data conversion (encription, compression) should be a known and well-understood toipc; thus, I would like to see any good reference designs. As, I do not have any experiance in high-speed I/O, I would like to discover existing and popular high speed interfaces (DRIVERS, tools, examples, defign flows, methodologies, cores, etc.). Can anybody offer an Internet resource or an exellent book describing the topic? How many time would it take to built a simplest prototype in man-hours (100, 1000, million)? How costly will it be?
Many thanks.