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AssigneeMarvell Asia Pte Ltd
InventorsGuy Townsend Hutchison, Sachin Ramesh Gandhi, Tsahi Daniel, Gerald Schmidt, Albert Fishman, Martin Leslie White, Zubin Shah
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A software-defined network (SDN) system, device and method comprise one or more input ports, a programmable parser, a plurality of programmable lookup and decision engines (LDEs), programmable lookup memories, programmable counters, a programmable rewrite block and one or more output ports. The programmability of the parser, LDEs, lookup memories, counters and rewrite block enable a user to customize each microchip within the system to particular packet environments, data analysis needs, packet processing functions, and other functions as desired. Further, the same microchip is able to be reprogrammed for other purposes and/or optimizations dynamically.
A switch microchip for a software-defined network, the microchip comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more dynamically configurable lookup memories and storing a programmable parser that parses packet context data from headers of a plurality of incoming packets based on a software-defined parse graph of the parser including a plurality of paths, wherein the one or more dynamically configurable lookup memories have a plurality of tables and are configured as a logical overlay such that the scaling and width of a portion of the lookup memories allocated to each of the paths is software-defined by a user.
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