gy. The Microprocessor Report can be found at www.mdronline.com. Downloaded from Digital Engineering Library @ McGraw-Hill (www.digitalengineeringlibrary.com) Copyright © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use as given at the website. ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO NETWORK PROCESSING: NET ASICS AND DESIGNING WITH IP CORES 190 NETWORK PROCESSORS The Linley Group can be found at www.linleygroup.com. The Linley Group has also been the inventor and source of inception and industrywide launch of a more appropriate network-processing benchmark called LinleyBenchTM. Information can be found at their web site. The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium at www.eembc.org is an interesting association trying to standardize performance measurements between different embedded CPU architectures. It has gained significant industry acceptance and has developed some specific test suites to measure and analyze performance of a computing engine in multiple environments. As of this writ- ing, the networking applications suite is probably extremely limited for historical reasons. Therefore, the consortium's work is more readily suitable for classical CPU rating. Meaningful network- processing benchmarks must include a realistic load of traffic as well as the need for multiple class of service (CoS)/QoS flows of processing to show performance that approximates real life. We can safely say that that the EEMBC benchmarks constitute a good path for the evaluation of CPUs that are intended for control plane applications. A couple of important events in this industry include the Embedded Processor Forum (www. mdronline.com/epf) and the Communications Design Conference (www.mdronline.com/mpr/h/ 2000/0327/141303.html). Downloaded from Digital Engineering Library @ McGraw-Hill (www.digitalengineeringlibrary.com) Copyright © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use as given at the website. Source: NETWORK PROCESSORS PERIPHERAL CHIPS SUPPORT