EVOLUTION OF NETWORK PROCESSORS

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2013 ◽  
Vol 380-384 ◽  
pp. 1969-1972
Author(s):  
Bo Yuan ◽  
Jin Dou Fan ◽  
Bin Liu

Traditional network processors (NPs) adopt either local memory mechanism or cache mechanism as the hierarchical memory structure. The local memory mechanism usually has small on-chip memory space which is not fit for the various complicated applications. The cache mechanism is better at dealing with the temporary data which need to be read and written frequently. But in deep packet processing, cache miss occurs when reading each segment of packet. We propose a cooperative mechanism of local memory and cache. In which the packet data and temporary data are stored into local memory and cache respectively. The analysis and experimental evaluation shows that the cooperative mechanism can improve the performance of network processors and reduce processing latency with little extra resources cost.


2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Neng Lin ◽  
Ying-Dar Lin ◽  
Yuan-Cheng Lai ◽  
Kuo-Kun Tseng

Author(s):  
Michelle Yibing Wang ◽  
Bing J. Sheu ◽  
Theodore W. Berger ◽  
Wayne C. Young ◽  
Austin Kwang-Bo Cho

Author(s):  
Sadaf Abaei Senejani ◽  
Hossein Karimi ◽  
Javad Rahnama
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