Freescale Semiconductor,inc.

Thomas B Brightman

Edward J McLellan

David J Husak

James Arthur Farrell

Donald A Priore

Mark A Sankey

Andrew T Brown

Paul Schmitt

John F Brown

Andrew D Funk

An integrated circuit () for use in processing streams of data generally and streams of packets in particular. The integrated circuit () includes a number of packet processors (), a table look up engine (), a queue management engine () and a buffer management engine (). The packet processors () include a receive processor (), a transmit processor () and a risc core processor (), all of which are programmable. The receive processor () and the core processor () cooperate to receive and route packets being received and the core processor () and the transmit processor () cooperate to transmit packets. Routing is done by using information from the table look up engine () to determine a queue () in the queue management engine () which is to receive a descriptor () describing the received packet's payload.

High speed and high throughput digital communications processor with efficient cooperation between programmable processing components

Digital communications processor

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Thomas B Brightman