[ixp1200] IXP1200 timings.

[Yitzchak M. Gottlieb]

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Liam.Noonan wrote:

> I am trying to obtain information regarding the number of cycles/ length of
> time it takes the IXP1200 to peform the following tasks.
> 
> 1, move an mpacket from the a port to rfifo
> 2, moving mpackets from rfifo to the Microengines, SDRAM
> 3. Moving mpackets from SDRAM and the Microengine to TFIFO
> 4. Moving mpackets from TFIFO to an out going port.
> 5. access times for accessing SRAM.
> 

There is a Princeton University technical report,
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/nsg/papers/ixp.html, and an SOSP paper
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/nsg/papers/ixp-sosp.html by Tammo Spalink that
addresses at least some of these questions.

Zuki

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Yitzchak Gottlieb
zuki at CS.Princeton.EDU