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Altera and Cavium deliver pre-verified packet classification soln for n/w appliances

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Sharath Kumar
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HONG KONG: Altera Corp. announced its Interlaken Look-Aside intellectual property (IP) core has been tested and is compatible with Cavium's NEURON Search Processor.

This deployment-ready, pre-verified solution provides networking OEMs a low-latency, high-performance packet interface for use in networking appliances, including routers, switches, firewalls, and security storage. The Interlaken Look-Aside IP core is offered today as part of Altera's portfolio of best-in-class IP cores which are optimized to provide superior performance, latency and area utilization when integrated within Altera's Arria 10 and Stratix V FPGAs.

Altera's FPGA-based Interlaken Look-Aside solution enables interoperability between a datapath device and a look-aside coprocessor with transfer rates up to 300 Gbps and delivers more than 500 million packets per second performance. In addition to the superior performance, the Interlaken Look-Aside IP is comprised of soft and hardened logic blocks that offer customers a high degree of user interface, lane and data rate configuration flexibility for optimal integration.

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