A Design of Intel’s IXP Meant for Embedded Systems

Abstract

Technologies to design an embedded system can be of three types: processor technology, IC technology & design technology. Billions of computing systems are built every year for a variety of purpose. They are built within larger electronic devices. These systems perform a one particular function on regular basis. These systems do not recognized by the device's user. These systems are known as embedded system. Broad categories for system implementation are: Application Specific Integrated Circuit, Field Programmable Gate Array, Co-Processor, Application Specific Instruction Processor and General Purpose Processor. From the network processor's designing point of view, it is very important to understand the preliminary characteristics of network applications which are generally based on address lookup, pattern matching, and queuing management which is further classified as Control plane and Data Plane processing. Keywords: Network Processor, General Purpose processor, Field programmable gate array.I.