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News Release from: IDT | Subject: Ternary IP coprocessors
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 March 2002
Coprocessors boost network processor
search speed
IDT has released a new family of ternary Internet protocol coprocessors which offer a glueless quad-datarate interface to the new Intel IXP2800 and IXP2400 network processors.
IDT (Integrated Device Technology) has released a new family of ternary Internet protocol coprocessors which offer a glueless quad-datarate (QDR) interface to the new Intel IXP2800 and IXP2400 network processors, and increase searching capabilities to 125 million searches per second, allowing for multiple lookups at OC-192 line rates IDT is working with Intel to provide comprehensive packet-processing enablers, including a simulation model and complete software support for the application library, which simplifies the development process for network equipment designers, resulting in faster time to market and lower design costs for next-generation equipment
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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IP coprocessors provide flexible search width
IDT has released its first commercially available Internet protocol coprocessor product portfolio that enables up to OC-768 wire speed to support ever-increasing packet processing requirements.
The solutions target applications requiring line rates up to OC-192, such as core and edge routers and layer 4 through 7 switches.
Based on the integration of content addressable memory (CAM) technology and high-performance logic, IDT's new ternary IP coprocessors are compliant with the Network Processor Forum's NPF2001.114.14 (LA-1) QDR standard and seamlessly interface to the network processor unit (NPU).
The need for interface logic to NPU is thus eliminated, conserving valuable board real estate.
IDT's IP coprocessors include a set of advanced database management features and sophisticated instruction capabilities that extend the searching functionality involved in packet classification and forwarding for network processors.
The resulting extra headroom allows the NPU to address value-added functions in data and voice access, subscriber aggregation, line aggregation and services, and transport applications.
IDT will offer a foreign object model, a cycle- and data-accurate C simulation model, which when paired with the Microengine development environment of Intel's Internet Exchange Architecture software development kit 3.0, allows customers to evaluate the packet-processing solutions in a simulation environment prior to silicon.
Customers can begin simulation with the foreign object model in early Q2.
IDT will deliver its ternary IP coprocessors with QDR interfaces in Q3.
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