[ixp1200] Monitoring the IXBus using Workbench

[Botham, Mick]

Liam,

The Workbench will show cycles for the microengines and the IX bus, the 'IX
bus device status' shows the IX data bus and the status pins, so you can see
the cycle count when EOP is asserted, a data watch on the RFIFO elements
will show you when the MPKT is written into the RFIFO. I ran the L3fwd8_1f
project, this looks like 8 microengine cycles to transfer the MPKT into the
RFIFO.
Rgds


-----Original Message-----
From: Liam.Noonan [mailto:Liam.Noonan at ul.ie] 
Sent: 17 June 2003 12:35
To: 'ixp1200 at CS.Princeton.EDU'
Subject: [ixp1200] Monitoring the IXBus using Workbench


Hi,

I am trying to determine the amount of cycles/time required to transfer an
Mpacket from an IXF 440 to RFIFO.

I have loaded and examined the receive code from chapter 5 in the IXP 1200
book. The history window however displays the information from the
microengine point of view. 

I am interested from both the IXF 440 and RBS point of view the amount of
cycles each unit utilises to accomplish this task.

Any suggestions as to how I can view this information on workbench would be
appreciated.

Regards

Liam

University of Limerick
Ireland