… book with a description of two important network processors’ peripherals: switch fabrics (the …
There are two approaches to provide such multiservice networks that reflect current traffic …

… networking equipment, mainly switches and routers. We will describe many aspects in the
network processor … level: A method to achieve more flexibility in network processor architecture …

… of content-aware switches has been done using NPs. The aim of … switch using TCP splicing
technique and demonstrate its high performance. Implementing a content aware switch using …

… MPLS—multiprotocol label switching NP—network processor PHY—… Nearly all NPs use
multiple processor cores operating in … major approaches taken in the processing methodologies …

… We have based some of our ideas on [4] who propose a Network Virtual Machine to model
a network processor. The current approaches for programming a network processor is to use …

… Compared to this complex method of referencing memory, our programming model is
considerably easier. For our prototype implementation, we have implemented two specific …

… demands by using the coprocessor in the most efficient way. … a dynamically reconfigurable
network processor a method to … partially reconfigured to change hardware acceleration units …

… or switches, a custom-designed network processor is a good solution. We asked Doug Comer
to give us an overview of network processors. … engineers use three basic techniques to …

… Switch Processor [25] and Cisco PXF [I71 use VLIW architec… Another method exploits ILP
at run time using a superscalar … Cognigine [27] uses this method to find the ILP based on the …

… network processors have em ing these architectures will help us to: ployed: approaches
to … IQ2000”, Product Brief, February Those NPUs that do not have a network or switch inter …