Using IXP2400/2800 Development Tools: A Hands-on Approach to Network Processor Software Design

By Donald F. Hooper

Glossary

API: is an applications programming interface. APIs enable programmers to work in parallel to a common interface or to use tested and released product libraries.
CCI: is the Intel XScale core component interface. In the Intel Internet Exchange Architecture (Intel IXA) software framework, management and exception code blocks reside on the Intel XScale core and are called core components. The portable API for these is the CCI.
CSR: is a control status register. This hardware register is used to control hardware behavior. It holds hardware configuration parameters and other states.
Console function: is a function available for calling on the transactor command line by the C interpreter. The function can be defined interactively, in a script file, or by a foreign model through the transactor console function registration interface.
Context: is a hardware-supported execution thread of a single microengine. Contexts are numbered from 0 through 7 for microengine version 2 (MEv2).
Defer shadow: is the dead cycles that may occur in a microengine following a branch taken or context swap.
Developer Workbench: is the graphics user interface framework for the Intel IXA toolkit.
DLL: is Dynamic Link Library. This separately compiled program is linked in at run time with the main program.
DRAM: is dynamic random access memory. DRAM is cheaper than SRAM, but DRAM access time (latency) is more than twice that of SRAM. In IXP2XXX network processors, DRAM is typically used to hold packet data, and SRAM is used to...

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