Network Processor Design - Issues and Practice - volume 1

More than a proceedings, Network Processors 2002: Design Principles and Practices presents the results of this workshop. The workshop participants have enhanced and edited their original papers to address the comments they received from colleagues. The keynote talk by Bill Dally of Stanford University has also been revised especially for this text. In addition, the editors have gathered completely new material from practicing designers who discuss the latest network processors manufactured by their companies. Network Processors 2002: Design Principles and Practices is an essential reference on network processors for graduate students, researchers and practicing designers.

Features
Includes contributions from major academic and industrial research labs including Aachen University of Technology; Cisco Systems; Infineon Technologies; Intel Corp.; North Carolina State University; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; University of California, Berkeley; University of Dortmund; University of Washington; and Washington University.
Examines the latest network processors from Agere Systems, Cisco, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Sierra Inc., and TranSwitch.

• Part 1. Design Principles

• Chapter 1. Network Processors: An Introduction to Design Issues, Patrick Crowley, Mark Franklin, Haldun Hadimioglu, and Peter Onufryk
• Chapter 2. Benchmarking Network Processors, Prashant R. Chandra, Frank Hady, Raj Yavatkar, Tony Bock,Mason Cabot and Philip Mathew
• Chapter 3. A Methodology and Simulator for the Study of Network Processors, Deepak Suryanarayanan, Gregory T. Byrd and John Marshall
• Chapter 4. Design Space Exploration of Network Processor Architectures, Lothar Thiele, Samarjit Chakraborty, Matthias Gries and Simon Künzli
• Chapter 5. Compiler Back-end Optimizations for Network Processors with Bit Packet Addressing, Jens Wagner and Rainer Leupers
• Chapter 6. A Network Processor Performance and Design Model with Benchmark Parameterization, Mark A. Franklin and Tilman Wolf
• Chapter 7. A Benchmarking Methodology for Network Processors, Mel Tsai, Chidamber Kulkarni, Christian Sauer, Niraj Shah and Kurt Keutzer
• Chapter 8. A Modeling Framework for Network Processor Systems, Patrick Crowley and Jean-Loup Baer

• Part 2. Practices

• Chapter 9. An Industry Analyst's Perspective on Network Processors, John Freeman
• Chapter 10. Agere Systems - Communications Optimized PayLoadPlus Network Processor Architecture, Bill Klein
• Chapter 11. Cisco Systems - Toaster 2, John Marshall
• Chapter 12. IBM - PowerNP Network Processor, Mohammad Peyravian, Jean Calvignac and Ravi Sabhikhi
• Chapter 13. Intel Corporation - Intel ® IXP2400 Network Processor: A 2nd Generation Intel ® NPU, Prashant Chandra, Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy and Raj Yavatkar
• Chapter 14. Motorola - C5e Network Processor, Eran Cohen Strod and Patricia Johnson
• Chapter 15. PMC-Sierra, Inc - ClassiPI, Vineet Dujari, Remby Taas and Ajit Shelat
• Chapter 16 TranSwitch - ASPEN: Flexible Network Processing for Access Solutions, Subhash C. Roy