NP-click: A productive software development approach for network processors

IEEE Micro

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 45-54

  Shah, Niraj ^a   Plishker, William ^a   Ravindran, Kaushik ^a   Keutzer, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES; NETWORK PROCESSORS; PROGRAMMING MODEL;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 8844226032     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2004.53     Document Type: Article

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