Reconfigurable Communication Processor： A New Approach for Network Processor

As the traditional RISC +ASIC/ASSP approach for network processor design can not meet the today'srequirements, this paper described an alternate approach, Reconfigurable Processing Architecture, to boost theperformance to ASIC level while reserve the programmability of the traditional RISC based system. This papercovers both the hardware architecture and the software development environment architecture.