Title :
Is Time Ripe for Fabric on a Chip?
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tennessee Univ., Knoxville, TN
Abstract :
At the heart of any switch or router is a packet-switching fabric subsystem. Broadly speaking, the switch fabric facilitates the exchange of data packets from the input ports to the output ports. Fabrics range in size from hand-sized, four-port boxes to rack-mounted chassis that require forklifts to reposition. Port density and data rates strongly dictate fabric complexity. Advances in point-to-point communication technologies necessitate continuous scalability of fabric sub systems. Implementations of these subsystems range from shared-memory designs to fully distributed, multistage architectures
Keywords :
computer networks; packet switching; shared memory systems; system-on-chip; fabric-on-chip; packet-switching; point-to-point communication technology; shared-memory design; Bandwidth; Books; Contacts; Delay; Fabrics; Memory management; Next generation networking; Packet switching; Scalability; Switches; FoCs; communication technologies; fabric on a chip; networking infrastructure;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2006.316
