Netronome Systems Inc. pushes NFP-6xxx flow processors

Published:2012/6/7 2:09:00 Author:Ecco From:SeekIC

Netronome Systems Inc. is a company which specialized in a fabless network processor. It has pushed the NFP-6xxx family of flow processors which can operate at up to 200-Gbits per second with Intel's 22-nm FinFET manufacturing process technology. Netronome claims they provide more than six times the packet processing performance at less than half the power of alternatives made using 28-nm CMOS.

Fabless network processor company Netronome Systems Inc. has announced details of the NFP-6xxx family of flow processors, which operate at up to 200-Gbits per second. The chips are made using Intel’s 22-nm FinFET manufacturing process technology. The NFP-6xxx product line is designed for networking applications that require programmable, line-rate processing on millions of simultaneous, complex flows. It is aimed at equipment with data rates of 10- to 400-Gbits per second. The NFP-6xxx provides a software-compatible migration for customers from the NFP-32XX range which also used the ARM11MP core.

The NFP-6xxx is supported by software development tools, including a C-compiler, packet generator, graphical integrated development environment, and cycle- and timing- accurate simulators. However, the NFP-6XXX realizes its most processing work by 216 programmable cores. The applications of NFP-6xxx include line cards, service blades and PCIe cards, mobile networking, cyber security, virtualized datacenters and cloud computing.

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