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 ...
Electronic Design

10-Gbps Network Processor Is Fully Programmable

Representing the fourth generation in the nP7000 family, the nP7510 is a 10-Gbps network processor (NPU) targeted at applications such as 10-Gbps Ethernet and OC-192 Packet over SONET (PoS) and ATM. A ...
Network World

Cisco announces QuantumFlow mystery network processor

Cisco is announcing a 40-core network processor Monday that seems designed to upgrade its CRS-1 core router, though the company isn’t saying yet. Cisco won’t actually reveal what it plans to do with ...
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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Flipping Processor Design On Its Head

AI is changing processor design in fundamental ways, combining customized processing elements for specific AI workloads with more traditional processors for other tasks. But the tradeoffs are ...
Network World

The Cisco QuantumFlow Processor: The Engine in the ASR 1000 Series

Several weeks ago I wrote a couple blogs on the Cisco ASR 1000-series routers: one blog on the hardware architecture of the ASR 1000-series and a blog on Cisco IOS XE. Before finishing my little ...