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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2013
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Michael E. Attig, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gordon J. Brebner, San Jose, CA (US);
XILINX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one approach for processing a data packet, in at least one stage of a plurality of stages of a pipeline circuit, a respective packet field value is extracted from the data packet. In each stage of the plurality of stages, a respective tuple field value is inserted into a respective tuple register of the stage at a respective offset. The respective tuple field value in the at least one stage is based on the respective packet field value. In each stage of the plurality of stages except a last one of the stages, the contents of the respective tuple register of the stage are provided as input to a next one of the stages.