Broadcom Corporation

Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited

Oren Issac Wolach

Boaz Shahar

Ryan E Hirth

Eliezer Weitz

David Avishai

Asaf Koren

Gal Sitton

Ifat Naaman

Yariv Aviram

Mitchell Gordon McGee

Ira Joffe

Assaf Amitai

Daniel Pasternak

Hilla Ben Yaacov

Yoram Gorsetman

Dan Beygelman

Tal Baum-Mizrachi

Koby Harel

Yanai Pomeranz

The present disclosure is directed to a network processor for processing high volumes of traffic provided by todays access networks at (or near) wireline speeds. The network process can be implemented within a residential gateway to perform, among other functions, routing to deliver high speed data services (e.g., data services with rates up to 10 Gbit/s) from a wide area network (WAN) to end user devices in a local area network (LAN).

Network processors

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for inserting the packet into a tail of a linked list buffer, and the linked list buffer includes a plurality of Buffer Descriptors (BD), a HEAD pointer pointing to a null Buffer Descriptor (NullBD) and a NULLBD pointer. The NULLBD pointer is switched to point to the NullBD and the HEAD pointer to point to a valid BD which represents a memory address of payload data in the packet to be transmitted. Upon transmission of the packet, the HEAD pointer is converted to point to the NullBD and the NULLBD pointer to point to the valid BD. The valid BD pointed by the NULLBD pointer is finally transferred to a free linked list buffer so that the NULLBD pointer points to no memory address.

Non-semaphore linked list management

An apparatus for enabling booting from a NAND flash memory comprises a NAND flash controller connected to the NAND flash memory, wherein the NAND flash memory is configured to include at least a starter section for storing boot code, the starter section includes a predefined number of blocks to store copies of the boot code duplicated in a configurable number of blocks; and a fetch emulator for fetching a valid and complete starter block that includes the boot code.

Apparatus and method thereof for reliable booting from NAND flash memory

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Kfar Saba, Israel

Oren Issac Wolach