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Dynamically adaptable communications processor architecture and associated methods

  • US 7,243,154 B2
  • Filed: 06/27/2002
  • Issued: 07/10/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apparatus comprising:

  • a configuration memory to store configuration information for a plurality of different communication protocols selected from asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), packet-over-synchronous optical network (POS), and generic framing procedure (GFP);

    control logic to determine a communication protocol associated with a data packet received over a communication channel, and retrieve configuration information corresponding to the determined communication protocol from the configuration memory; and

    a dynamically configurable processing engine to process the data packets based on the configuration information; and

    a context memory, wherein the control logic is further to store context data associated with a processed portion of the data packet after the processing of the data packet has stopped, and wherein the control logic is to retrieve the context data and process an unprocessed portion of the data packet using the configured processing engine.

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