Patent ID: 7805540
Filing Date: 2010-09-28
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing instructions to a switch comprising: generating a count value including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion operable to identify a first instruction set associated with a first line card and the second portion operable to identify a relative location in one of a plurality of instruction sets in an instruction memory for a switch, the count value being a unitary value, the first portion comprising a set of most significant bits (MSB) of the unitary value, the second portion comprising a set of least significant bits (LSB) of the unitary value; determining a redirection value for the first portion of the count value based on the first portion of the count value, the redirection value operable to identify a second instruction set associated with a second line card, the first portion of the count value operable to identify an initial one of the instruction sets disparate from the instruction set identified by the redirection value; and reading, with a microprocessor, an instruction from a memory from the relative location in the second instruction set based on the redirection value and the second portion of the count value.