Title :
A flexible register access control for programmable protocol processors
Author :
Ma, Yutai ; Jantsch, Axel ; Tenhunen, Hannu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract :
We investigate a programmable processor architecture for internet protocol processing and use IP packet forward as a case study. We focus on flexible register access capability to support packet analysis and encapsulation. Compared to general-purpose superscalar microprocessors, our architecture achieves at least a two-fold improvement in performance
Keywords :
microprocessor chips; packet switching; programmable circuits; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; IP packet forward; encapsulation; flexible register access control; general-purpose superscalar microprocessors; internet protocol processing; packet analysis; programmable protocol processors; Access control; Access protocols; Encapsulation; Encoding; Filters; Internet; Logic; Process control; Registers; Routing;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2001. MWSCAS 2001. Proceedings of the 44th IEEE 2001 Midwest Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Dayton, OH
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7150-X
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.2001.986209
