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    IXP1200 Network Processor Family ATM OC-3/12/Ethernet IP Router Example Design Application Note - Rev 1.0, 3/20/20 02 Order Num ber: 27839 3-001[...]

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    Application Note Informati on in this do cument is prov ided in connect ion wi th Intel ® products. No licen se, express or imp lied, by estoppe l or otherwi se, to any intellectu al property rights is grante d by this docume nt. Excep t as provi ded in Inte l’s T erms an d Condit ions of S ale for su ch pro ducts, In te l assumes no l iability [...]

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    Application Note iii IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Contents 1.0 Int roduct ion ....... ............. ............. ............. ................... ............. ............. ............. ................... ...... 7 1.1 Purpose o f ATM E xample Desi gn ............... ............. .......[...]

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    iv Application Note IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 3.7.2 CRC-32 C hecke r and G enerator Hig h Lev el Algorit hm............ ............. . 29 3.7.3 CRC-32 C omputation ............ ............ ............. .................... ............. ....... 29 4.0 Softwa re Subsystems & Data Struc[...]

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    Application Note v IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design 4.8.2.2 Counter Inde x ........ ...... ...... ....... ...... ....... ...... ....... ...... ....... ...... .... 4 7 4.8.2.3 Global Counter E nable an d Flags ......... ................... ............. .... 48 4.8.3 coun ters.uc ..... ...........[...]

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    vi Application Note IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design Figures 1 IP ove r ATM Encap sulation Format ... ............ ............. ............. ............. ................ 9 2 Frame a nd PDU Leng th vs. IP Packet L ength ................... ............. ............. ....... 10 3 Expected Ethern[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 7 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 1.0 Int roduc tion Intel develops examp le software to demons trate the capabilities of the IX P1200 Network Process or Family . This docu ment describes the implementation o f example software demonstrating the IXP1200, [...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 8 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, 1.2.1 Supported / Not Implemented Functions The following identifies the A TM, Ethernet, and StrongARM sup ported functions, as well as those func t ion s tha t a re no t sup port ed. The maj or ity o f RFC 1812 rou ter va li[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 9 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 1.3.2 Frame and PDU Length vs. IP Packet Length Figur e 2 shows the relationship between IP Packet Length ( X axis), Ethernet Frame Length, and AAL5 PDU length (Y axis). Packet lengths 20 - 128 bytes are sho wn to illu st[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 10 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, PDUs because 8-bytes of LLC /SNAP plus 8 b ytes of AA L5 trailer push them over the 48 byte payload capacity of a s ingle A TM cell. • Fully populated 64-byte minimum- sized Ethernet frames carry 46 -byte IP packets, and a[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 11 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, A 33-byte IP pack et overflows into 2 cells, requiring 53 mo re bytes on the inpu t wire. This effectively s lows down the input r ate, and the theoretical best-case Ethernet T ransmit bandwidth for this input drops t o [...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 12 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, Figur e 4 shows h ow data stream PDUs can be created in the W orkb ench fo r A TM, Ethernet, IP , and other protocol data streams. These data streams can then be assigned to feed diffe rent ports. T o test how the example de[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 13 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, . 1.4.2 Hardwar e The README.txt file contained in the vxworks subdirectory of the project so urce code des cribes how to bui l d an d ru n t he pr oje ct on hard war e usi ng Vx W or ks ® . While the project runs in si[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 14 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, The StrongARM core shares access to SRAM and DRAM with the microengin es, and thus can manage the VC and I P tables. The Stron gARM core runs a Developer ’ s W ork b ench deb ug lib ra ry to connect to Developer ’ s W or[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 15 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 2.3 Software Partiti oning The following figures show how the microcode functional blocks are partiti oned on IXP12xx hardware for the three system configu rations. All three figures show t he A TM ports on the left, and[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 16 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, In the OC-12 configu ration, there are two mes sage queues (MSGQs) in s cratchpad RAM, one for PDUs from each Ethern et Receive microengine. The po ol of threads in the A TM transmit microengine alternately poll the two MSGQ[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 17 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 2.4 Data Flow 2.4.1 A TM to Ethernet Data Flow Figur e 10 outlines the processing to receive A TM cells and forward them to Ethernet ports. For a given VC, three different types of cells of the PDU can arrive: the first [...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 18 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, syndrome is updated ap propriately . The VC T able Entry also contains an AAL type f iel d. Currently , this example design su pports only classical IP over A TM, where the AAL type can be either 0 or 5. A va l ue of 0 indic[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 19 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 2.4.2 Ether ne t to A TM Data Flo w Figur e 11 outlines the sequence of events that takes place when processing incoming Ethernet packets. Incoming Eth ernet packets can either fit within a s ingle MPKT ("m-packet&q[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 20 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, 3. Run the IXP12 00 Develope r ’ s W orkbench debug library , and connects it to a r emote system host via the PCI Eth ernet NIC to download and debug IXP1240 microcode. Then, atm_init( ) is invoked to init ialize dat a st[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 21 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 3.1.2 High Level Algorithm In all conf igurations, each Receive thr ead gets its own RFIFO element, as assigned by port_r x_init( ) . "Fast-port" speculative receive requests. "Slow-port" status check[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 22 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, 3.2 A TM T ransmit Microengine The A TM T ransmit microengine is an AAL5 Uns pecified Bit Rate (UBR) T ransmitter that uses a single microengine to move cells at wire-rate in either si ngle OC-12 or up to four OC-3 port conf[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 23 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 3.3 IP-Router Microengine The IP Router micro engine consumes packets from the A TM receive microengine via a message queue, and routes them to the app ropriate Ethernet transmit packetq. In the IXP1 200 software-CRC con[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 24 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, • For A T M destinations, enqu eue to the A TM Transmit microengine, or for software C RC, to the appropriat e AAL5 CR C-32 generati on queues. The ETHERNET_LOOPBACK build option enables routing packets from E thernet Rece[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 25 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 3.5.1 Ethernet T ransmit Struc tur e The Ethernet T ran smit microengine contain s three fill thr eads and one trans mi t sch eduler thread . The Ethernet trans mitter uses the eight even T IFO elements, allowing the A T[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 26 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, Quadwords 1-5 are tra ns ferred by an sdram_crc[r_fifo_rd, 5] instruction. Quadwor d 6 contains "Data 1 1" -- the eleventh 32-bit longword of the cell. Data 11 is stored in the VC table entry to be consumed when th[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 27 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, • Upon reception of the f i rst cell, data11 is s aved in th e VC cach e/table en try . Upon recep tion of the 2nd cell, data1 1 is retrieved from the VC cache/table entry , combined with data0 of the second cell, and [...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 28 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, The hardware byte aligner operates on the data b efore the CRC computation h ardware. This can be seen in the transfer to quadword 0 of the T FIFO element with sdram_cr c[t_fifo_wr] , mask_right with a byte alignmen t of 2 a[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 29 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 3.7.2 CRC -32 Checker and Generator High Level Algorithm The PDUs within each VC on each port are enq ueued on the outpu t in the same order that they were dequeued fr om the input. 3.7.3 CRC-32 Computation CRC-32 comput[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 30 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, The OC-12 conf iguration uses a VC T able Cache in co njunction with the VC table, however the description of the backing VC tab le in this section applies with or with out the presence of a VC Cache. The VC table entry answ[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 31 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, When atm_vc_table_entry _create() attempts to add an entry to the table and determines that th e entry in the primar y tab l e is alread y o ccup ied, it needs to co me u p with an available entry to thread onto the Next[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 32 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, The project defaults to s upport a 64K-entry VC table - independent of th e number of ports. It d oes this with eight si gnificant VCI bits, and eight more bits split betw een VPI and ports. This means that the design can di[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 33 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, Entry Description Nex t Address of the next entry in t he chain of entries that hash to the same row . 0 indicates no next entry . (21 bit SRAM address) Key Hash key used to find this entry , also used to confirm arrival[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 34 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, 4.2 Virtual Ci rcuit Lookup T able Cache 4.2.1 VC Cache Function 4.2.1.1 OC-12 Configuration The intent of the VC cache is not to reduce aver age latency but to account for back to back cells from the same VC. It is not poss[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 35 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 4.2.3 VC Cache API There is no interaction between the StrongARM core and the VC Cache. I n particular , there is no method for the StrongARM core to fo rce the A TM Receive microengine to inv alidate cache entries to sy[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 36 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, 4.3.3 IP T able Management API The route table is mana ged by the Route T able Manager (R TM), which may b e used from both T ransactor Scripts and VxW orks. It may b e compiled and loaded as a local foreign model, thu s all[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 37 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 4.3.3.4 enet_route_add() Adds a route with Ethernet destination to the route table. enet_route_add( char *dest, char *netmask, char *gateway, int itf, int gateway_da_hi32, int gateway_da_lo16,int gateway_sa_hi16, int gat[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 38 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, 4.4 SRA M Buffer Descriptors and DRAM Data Buffers SRAM Buffer Descr iptors and DRAM Data Buf f ers are a fundamental componen t of this design. Each descriptor o ccupies 16 byte s of SRAM, and is used as a h andle to desc r[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 39 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, Both descriptors and buf fers are stored i n arrays. The ar ray index is u sed to associate a un ique DRAM Data Buffer with each SRAM Descriptor: 4.4.1 SRAM Buffer Descriptor Forma t This buf fer descriptor f ormat is us[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 40 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, 4.4.2 DRAM Da ta Buffe r Format Packet payloads are s tored in DRAM data bu ffers . Depending on if the d ata was received o n an A TM or Ethernet port, the p ayload will land in a dif ferent place within the data buf fer ..[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 41 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 4.4.3 System Li mit on Pack et Buffe rs Several factors are involved in the number of p acket buff ers the system can support: • The Ethernet transmitter uses packetqs ( packetq.uc ), and t he implementation of pack et[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 42 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, 4.5.2 Usa ge Mo del The following model is d escribed by an analogy to waiting in line at a baker y:. 4.5.2.1 Example #define MY_SEQUENCE_HANDLE my_seq_number, @enter, @one, @exit, @one, 32 sequence_init(MY_SEQUENCE_HANDLE) [...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 43 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 4.6.1 MSGQ_HANDLE Parameters The following parameters make up MSGQ_HANDLE and are common to all macr os in msgq.uc : 4.6.2 msgq_init_queue() Initializes the global queue in RAM_TYPE . Called by central initialization cod[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 44 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, msgq_send(io_message, MSGQ_HANDLE , RAM_OPTION ) 4.6.5 m sgq_receive () Receives a message fr om the queue. msgq_receive(i o_xfer, MSGQ_HANDLE ) 4.6.6 Exa mple In the following exam ple, a single microen gine uses four threa[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 45 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 4.7 Buffer Descri ptor Queues - bdq.uc This design uses a generi c buffer descriptor queu ing subsystem to pass data between micro engines. This section describes the facilit y so that it will be clear when it is appli e[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 46 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, For the synchro nous empty->non -empty queue n otification feature to be u sed, only one microengine can be ass igned to dequeu e from each queu e. Further , it is optimal when threads on that microengine dequ eue from a [...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 47 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, • On hardware, counters .c is compiled into the atm_util s.o VxW orks-loadable mo dule to provide counters at the VxW orks console. 4.8.1 Global Parameters 4.8.2 Use of the Counter Subsystem In this design, syst em_co [...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 48 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, 4.8.2.3 Global Counter Enabl e and Flags Global Counter Enable and Flags COUNTERS_ENABLE_MASK is the global counter enable and is set via a #define s tatement in syste m_c onf ig.h : T o enable a cou nter for a command: 1. E[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 49 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 4.8.3 counters.uc 4.8.3.1 counter_reset() Resets the specified coun ter to zero. counter_reset( in_counter_base, in_counter_offset, IN_ENABLE_FLAGS ) 4.8.3.2 counter_inc() Increments the specified counter . counter_inc( [...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 50 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, port_counter_inc() Algorithm #if (IN_ENABLE_FLAGS & COUNTERS_ENABLE_MASK) addr = IN_PORT_COUNTERS_BASE + 16 * (IN_PORT_BASE + in_port_index) + IN_EXCEPTION_INDEX *addr += 1 #endif #if (IN_ENABLE_FLAGS & COUNT_PORT_EX[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 51 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 4.8.4 counters.c 4.8.4.1 counters_init() Initializes al l counters. 4.8.4.2 counters_print() Prints the names and values o f all coun ters. Example In this example of output from counte rs_pri nt() , the s ystem ran the [...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 52 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, 237:[42]: 0 ETHER_RX_PACKET_ENQUEUE_ETHER 238:[43]: 1805817712 ATM_TX_CRC_PDU_DQ 239:[44]: 1688091717 ATM_TX_CRC_PDU_ENQ 240:[45]: 1688086138 ATM_RX_CRC_PDU_DQ 241:[46]: 1688086138 ATM_RX_CRC_PDU_ENQ 242:[47]: 0 ATM_RX_IPR_F[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 53 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, // sram[read, $foo], ordered, ctx_swap 4.10 Mutex V ectors Mutex vectors are an extension to criti cal sectio ns that allows multiple criti cal sectio ns to be contained within a single ab solute register . ( crits ect.u[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 54 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, 4.1 1 Inter-Thread Signalling Inter-thr ead signals are used in four ways: • Initializatio n, as d etailed in the “ Microengine Initialization ” section. • Notification to a BDQ (Buf fer Descriptor Queue) dequeue thr[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 55 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, // Define DEBUG to enable all the counters and run-time checking. // Disable for maximum performance. // #define DEBUG // Define COUNTERS_ENABLE_MASK to all 1’s to enable every system counter. // Otherwise its default [...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 56 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, 7.0 Sim ulation Support (Scripts, etc.) Simulation su p port for this example design is provid ed by using a combination of the Foreign Model DLLs (libraries linked to the Tr ansactor simulator), with interpreted T ransactor[...]

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    IXP120 0 Network Proces sor Family A T M OC-3/12/ Et hernet I P Router Example Design Application Note 57 Modifi ed on: 3/ 20/02, 10.0 Document Con ventions In illustrations of 3 2-bit registers, or d ata structures in memor y; smaller addresses appear toward the top of the fig ure, - as they would appear in a memory dump o n the screen. Bit positi[...]

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    IXP1200 Netw ork Processor Fa mily A TM OC-3/ 12/Ether net IP Router Example Design 58 Application Note Modified on: 3/20/02, 12.0 Related Docume nts PDU P rotocol Data Unit Rosetta Intel IXB8055 IX Bus to Utopia Bridge RTM Route T able Manager Slow Port A port that does not hav e dedicated st atus lines, and must poll for status T ransactor IXP124[...]