HSL-network

ASIM team
LIP6 Laboratory
Paris, France

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HSL-network

The HSL-network is based on the IEEE.1355 High Speed Link (HSL) protocol used by the RCUBE router (Rapid Reconfigurable Router) designed and developed at the MASI laboratory. RCUBE is a low latency router (150ns). It includes 8 bidirectional High Speed serial Link, a 8 $\times$ 8 non blocking crossbar switch and 8 independents programmables routing tables (one for each input link). Each link deliver a throughput of 1 Gbits/second (80MBytes/second) in each direction. The architecture is fully parallel and achieves a peak data throughput of 640MBytes/second.

RCUBE can cope with packets of any length. It implements a wormhole flow control technique, prefix and interval routing schemes. It provides efficient supports for adaptivity.

Port 0 and 1 of the RCUBE router can be directly accessed through a byte parallel interface. The PCI-DDC component interfaces directly the RCUBE router through this parallel interface (say port 0).

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