COP - Networking Apps

Coprocessor in Networking Applications
The goal of this section is a quick overview of COPs

Description

Classified in two type of processing

1. Centralized COP
2. I/O COP

Intuitively we understand than an I/O COP can be multiple (per line) and in-line (between PHY/MAC and CPU) whereas the centralized COP is spatially unique and sits next to the CPU.

We are not networking specialist (instead see reference) so we will not try to file the following COP in any of the 2 processing spaces. Instead we will list them by how much their algorithmic contents looks like a dsp algorithm. 

1. Encryption
1. elliptic curves
2. gallois fields
2. Security
3. Pattern matching, Reg-Ex
1. TCAM
2. 
   
4. TCP/IP acceleration
5. Search, Classification

References

Linley Group