MIPS Everywhere

Networking

vnetworkingOverview

In the 1980s, local area networking (LAN) revolutionized corporate communications within the building. After a consolidation of competing standards and the worldwide interconnection that is now called the Internet, the world has never been the same. Today, computers, mobile phones and many of the latest consumer electronics devices are fitted with an Internet connection.

Enterprise, carrier and storage networking systems demand faster, more powerful, lower cost solutions. Due to fraud and data theft, measures such as encryption, user authentication, firewalls, virus detection and link security add to the processing burden. Packet processing for today's IPv6 is significantly higher that yesterday's IPv4. Meanwhile, the bandwidth demand continues to rise and more people wish to be connected at the same time at lower costs. Pure processor performance is critical for market success; however, consumers no longer expect large, bulky equipment, so size and power are also critical factors. This is a perfect application for MIPS® cores that outclass competitive solutions in price (smallest die size), power (lowest energy consumption) and performance (raw throughput).

MIPS® Solutions

MIPS Technologies and the MIPS Ecosystem meet this demand with a broad range of high-performance, power-efficient, highly integrated 32-bit MIPS-BasedTM processors designed to handle large volumes of data, voice and video traffic at ever-increasing speeds. The benefits of a standard architecture are clear: software re-use and ease of porting, mature EDA/ESL design flows and methodologies, a full range of third-party development tool chains and world class on-chip debug IP with low-cost EJTAG probes and powerful debug navigation software. The MIPS architecture is one of only two processor architectures supported by Cisco's IOS software. Intoto and Jungo Software Technologies offer secure networking and residential gateway solutions for MIPS-Based ICs. Multi-threading as offered on the MIPS32® 34K® cores is a powerful capability that allows networking processors to do more with less.