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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2017
Cavium, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rajan Goyal, Saratoga, CA (US);
Satyanarayana Lakshmipathi Billa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yossef Shanava, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gregg A. Bouchard, Georgetown, TX (US);
Timothy Toshio Nakada, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cavium, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An engine architecture for processing finite automata includes a hyper non-deterministic automata (HNA) processor specialized for non-deterministic finite automata (NFA) processing. The HNA processor includes a plurality of super-clusters and an HNA scheduler. Each super-cluster includes a plurality of clusters. Each cluster of the plurality of clusters includes a plurality of HNA processing units (HPUs). A corresponding plurality of HPUs of a corresponding plurality of clusters of at least one selected super-cluster is available as a resource pool of HPUs to the HNA scheduler for assignment of at least one HNA instruction to enable acceleration of a match of at least one regular expression pattern in an input stream received from a network.