Hi,... could anyone tell me the exact stages og pipeline in the micro-Engines...i mean what are the difefrent stages and depth of the pipeline??? i have got examples where different threads can receive mpkt's frm different ports....but can any one suggets any way to receive mpkt's frm same ports by different threads...these threads may be on different ME's....i wanan know wht. kind of mutual exclusion shd. be done explicitly while allocating the sram and sdram buffers..... thanxs in advance... Regards, Nitin Makhija M.Tech(CS) IIT-Kharagpur