TY - GEN
T1 - Pulsar
T2 - 1990 ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990
AU - Muralwni, Gary J.
AU - Campbell, Roy H.
AU - Faiman, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1990 ACM.
PY - 1990/8/1
Y1 - 1990/8/1
N2 - This paper discusses the design of a switch for high-speed computer networking at gigabit rates. We present the Pulsar switch, a non-blocking design based on a high-spin-rate, port-dedicated, word-parallel, shift-register ring. Several design alternatives address the problem of Head-Of-Line blocking. In contrast to Batcher-Banyan switches, access to the ring is asynchronous which facilitates low delay and arbitrary packet length. The switch can support ATM cells simultaneously with packets sized for applications such as single characters, memory words, disk blocks, memory pages, or video images. Pulsar can be used as a high-throughput computer backplane replacement. The design can be implemented with existing high-speed circuit technology.
AB - This paper discusses the design of a switch for high-speed computer networking at gigabit rates. We present the Pulsar switch, a non-blocking design based on a high-spin-rate, port-dedicated, word-parallel, shift-register ring. Several design alternatives address the problem of Head-Of-Line blocking. In contrast to Batcher-Banyan switches, access to the ring is asynchronous which facilitates low delay and arbitrary packet length. The switch can support ATM cells simultaneously with packets sized for applications such as single characters, memory words, disk blocks, memory pages, or video images. Pulsar can be used as a high-throughput computer backplane replacement. The design can be implemented with existing high-speed circuit technology.
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U2 - 10.1145/99508.99546
DO - 10.1145/99508.99546
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0010262421
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990
SP - 145
EP - 155
BT - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, SIGCOMM 1990
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 26 September 1990 through 28 September 1990
ER -