Hardware Support for Active Networking
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چکیده
A new reconfigurable active router architecture is presented in this paper. It consists of a software part and a hardware part. The software part is a set of kernelspace and user-space modules running on linux-PC. An FPGA PCI-based board with a Virtex-1600E FPGA forms the hardware part. The integration of reconfigurable hardware into standard PC hardware allows for on-the-fly reconfigurable hardware.
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