A VLSI Implementation of a SM !$ Attachment Unit over an IC1 interface.
Mary Grace Tapia, Juan C. Calderh · 1996
The UNICORN project interconnects an Ethernet LAN with a MAN, ,a SMDS (Switched Multi-megabit Data Service) network, through a B-ISDN njetwork based on SDI1 and ATM. In the realization of this project, three ASICs have been conceived, one for SDH, one for ATM, and the one presented in this paper, the MPC (MAN Protocol Controllcir) ASIC. We present the implementation of the ICIP (Inter-Carrier Interface Protocol) protocol on the MPC ASIC. This protocol is used over an IC1 (Inter-Carrier Interface) interface to communicate with a SMDS network on a point-to-point basis. The MPC ASIC is used in the ICIP Network Adaptation Unit, a VME64 Double-Height board that can be integrated in the VME Bus to interconnect with the B-ISDN Internetwork Unit and the rest of the UNICORN project.