Re: Feasible to implement a router on a system on a chip?

On Mar 27, 6:37 pm, Keith M <keit...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
dspfun wrote:
Is it feasible, or even possible to implement a complete router on a
system on a chip (i.e. on one FPGA)?

....

Keith


I discovered that the MIPS architecture is widely licensed and used
frequently in common embedded applications. For example, the DI-525
router, hardware version C, uses a System on a Chip with the MIPS
instruction set, FLASH, and RAM. Lots of flash and ram, like 16Mb RAM
and 4Mb Flash (various posts cite different numbers).

Buy one on eBay (make sure it is Rev C) and open it up. There are
only 4 or 5 chips. One is a switch, one is the SoC. I speculate that
a switch could easily be brought into FPGA.



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