NetFPGA - An open platform for teaching how to build gigabit-rate network switches and routers

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 364-369

  Gibb, Glenn ^a   Lockwood, John W ^a   Naous, Jad ^a   Hartke, Paul ^a   McKeown, Nick ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); Internet; Networks; Protocols; Routing; Switches

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; DATA PROCESSING; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INDUCTION MOTORS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LOGIC GATES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROUTING PROTOCOLS;

ACADEMIC COMMUNITIES; AUSTRALIA; BUILDING BLOCKS; COMPLEX HARDWARES; COMPONENT LIBRARIES; CONTROL FUNCTIONS; DATA PROCESSING FUNCTIONS; EMBEDDED CORES; FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGAS); HOST COMPUTERS; NETWORK SWITCHES; NETWORKING SYSTEMS; NETWORKS; PROJECT WEB SITES; PROTOCOLS; REFERENCE DESIGNS; ROUTING; STANFORD; STANFORD UNIVERSITIES; UNITED KINGDOMS; UNITED STATES; VERILOG;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 56049085183     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2008.919664     Document Type: Article

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