Also, as demand increases for intelligence in networking, devices need more capacity for searching IP packets and ATM cells for filtering, routing, handling multiple protocols and security encryption. These additional demands for intelligence are rapidly changing the industry and have created a need for new more robust approaches. It provides the hardware acceleration that Internet applications desperately need. The LTI7020, like its predecessor the LTI7010, was implemented with an advanced power management scheme to minimize power consumption in a cascaded configuration. The LTI7020-66 consumes 2.0 watts operating at 66 MHz, assuming searches occur 50 percent of the time.
Samples are available now.
Full production is scheduled for April 2000. Inc. Lara Technology, headquartered in San Jose, Calif., is the industry leader in high-performance Search Processors. Lara's processors are designed to optimize New World applications such as optical networking, web switching, cable, CDMA, policy enforcement, VPNs, SANs, QoS and CoS through hardware acceleration. Lara Technology's recent offering is an intriguing addition to the growing population of hardware-based networking accelerator chips. The past year has marked the sudden appearance of this new crop of dedicated function chips that are intended to take on tasks originally performed by general-purpose programmable processors.