Spinach: A liberty-based simulator for programmable network interface architectures

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES)

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 20-29

  Willmann, Paul ^a   Brogioli, Michael ^a   Pai, Vijay S ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Embedded Systems; Programmable Network Interfaces; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL SIMULATION; LIBERTY SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT (LSE); NETWORK INTERFACE CARDS (NIC); PROGRAMMABLE NETWORK INTERFACE;

BANDWIDTH; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; STATIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 4544258602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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