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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2013
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Patrick W. Bosshart, Plano, TX (US);
Hun-Seok Kim, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/875 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/56 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment of the invention includes a packet processing pipeline. The packet processing pipeline includes match and action stages. Each match and action stage in incurs a match delay when match processing occurs and each match and action stage incurs an action delay when action processing occurs. A transport delay occurs between successive match and action stages when data is transferred from a first match and action stage to a second match and action stage.