Affiliation: | a CAD/VLSI Group, MC Division, Indian Telephone Industries, Banglore 560016, India b Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 600036, India |
Abstract: | The design of a high speed, broadband packet switch with two priority levels for application in integrated voice/data networks is presented. The packet switch can efficiently cope with 128 byte packets converging on it from eight 140 Mbit/s dynamic time division multiplexed fibre optic links. The packet switch throughput varies with the load and traffic composition, and the delay experienced by voice and data packets is within 300 μs and 3 ms, respectively. The design is implemented by task-sharing in a multi-processor configuration. The design of the packet switch, including its subsystems, is detailed here. |