Tropic Networks Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Edward Aung Kyi Maung

Kizito Gysbertus Antonius Van Asten

Faisal Dada

Bijan Raahemi

Thomas George Zboril

A high-speed memory is provided, the memory having a write port and a read port and comprised of the following: a plurality of N memory modules for storing fixed size cells, which are segments of a variable size packet divided into X cells, the X cells being grouped into &#x250c;X/N&#x2510; groups of cells; a read-write control block receiving cells from the write port and storing each cell, which belongs to the same group, in a selected different one of the N memory modules at the same memory address (the group address); a multi-cell pointer (MCP) storage for storing an MCP for the group of cells (an associated MCP) at an MCP address, the MCP having N memory module identifiers to record the order in which cells of the group of cells are stored in the N memory modules; the MCP address being the same as the group address.

High-speed memory having a modular structure

A high-speed packet memory is provided, the memory having a write port and a read port and comprised of the following: a plurality of N memory modules for storing fixed size cells, which are segments of a variable size packet divided into X cells, the X cells being grouped into [X/N] groups of cells;

High-speed packet memory

A method for transmission of digital data in a form of data packets through links carrying data packets with error correction, includes the steps of enveloping a sent packet data, first with an error detection scheme, and secondly with an error correction scheme. The error correction applies to both the sent packet data and to the error detection field. If an error in either of these fields occurs, the error correction scheme attempts to correct it. Error correction may fail in which case the packet is dropped. If error correction does not fail, there is still a possibility that there was an error which error correction did not correct correctly, or did not detect at all because the power of the correction scheme was exceeded. In these cases, the error detection scheme provides a method or means to detect such errors and drop the packet. Corresponding interconnect system with error correction, encode and decode for such are also provided.

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Edward Aung Kyi Maung