YARDS: FPGA/MPU Hybrid Architecture for Telecommunication Data Processing

This paper presents a novel system architecture applicable to high-performance and flexible transport data processing which includes complex protocol operation and a network control algorithm.Wedeveloped a new tightly coupled Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and Micro-Processing Unit (MPU) system named Yet Another Re-Definable System (YARDS). It comprises three programmable devices which equate to high flexibility. These devices aretheRISC-type MPU with memories, programmable interconnection devices, and FPGAs. Using these, this systemsupports various styles ofcoupling between theFPGAs and the MPU which aresuitable forconstructing transport data processing.In this paper, two applications ofthe systemin the telecommunications field are given. One is an Operation, Administration, and Management (OAM) cell operations on an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network. Theother is a dynamicreconfiguration protocol enables the update or change ofthe functions ofthe transport data processin...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: FPGA
• Authors: Akihiro Tsutsui, Toshiaki Miyazaki
• Keywords: Field Programmable Gate Array, FPGA, FPGA 1997, Transport Data, Transport Data Processing