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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2012
Marvell Israel (M.i.s.l.) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Evgeny Shumsky, Petah Tikva, IL;
Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L.) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a multi-core switch device comprising a plurality of P processing cores for processing packets received from a computer network; a memory comprising a plurality of M memory banks, the plurality of processing cores and the plurality of memory banks being arranged such that the plurality of processing cores have access to multiple memory banks among the plurality of memory banks to perform corresponding memory operations; and a memory access controller coupling the plurality of processing cores to the plurality of memory banks, the memory access controller configured to selectively provide, to each of the plurality of processing cores, access to multiple memory banks among the plurality of memory banks over a number of N physical couplings such that N (i) is an integer and (ii) is less than P times M.