Electronic Design

Network Processors Evolve To Meet Future Line Speeds

Continuous change in network speeds and services has forced network equipment designers and network-processor (NP) vendors to re-evaluate their designs. The quest is on for new and better ways to ...
Network World

Intel test chip design with 80-core processor

Following their march from standard processors to dual-core and quad-core designs in 2006, Intel Corp. researchers have built an 80-core chip that performs more than a teraflops (trillions of floating ...
Electronic Design

Network-Services Processor Chip Solves Mounting Bottleneck Issues

As the Internet connections to local-area networks via edge devices have grown, the architecture of the overall system has become fragmented and difficult to manage. Other problems also have emerged, ...
EDN

EZchip Delivers NP-3 Network Processor Evaluation System with 24 Gigabit Ports and Two 10-Gigabit Ports

EZchip announced that it is shipping its NP-3 EZappliance, a compact hardware platform based on EZchip’s NP-3 30-Gigabit network processor. EZappliance is a powerful platform that utilizes the NP-3 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Increasing Design Flexibility With RISC-V-Based Processor IP

The semiconductor industry increasingly needs more flexible and scalable processor architectures, driving the growing adoption of RISC-V. Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley ...