Network Processing Challenges and an Experimental NPU Platform
Pierre G. Paulin, Chuck Pilkington, Essaid Bensoudane · 2003
The fast-changing communications market requires high-performance yet flexible network-processing platforms. StepNP TM is an exploratory network processor simulation environment for exploring router applications, multiprocessor network-processing architectures, and SoC tools. Supporting model interaction, instrumentation, and analysis, the platform lets R&D teams easily add new processors, coprocessors, and interconnects. 1.