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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2002
Nathan Elnathan, Ranana, IL;
Alexander Joffe, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ilan Pardo, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Tasks are dynamically allocated to process packets. In particular, packets of data to be processed are assigned a packet identification. The packet identification includes a lane and a packet sequence number. The term 'lane' as used herein refers to a port number and a direction (i.e. ingress or egress), such as Port 3 Egress. A set of resources (e.g., registers and memory buffers) are associated with each lane. The task is allowed to access resources associated with the lane. In some embodiments, a task may change the port that it services and use the resources associated with that port.