On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 21:30, Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote:
> NPU or TCAM, both provide hardware-based forwarding. This is a bit orthogonal. You can have an NPU with TCAM or NPU with DRAM. You could also have ASIC with TCAM or ASIC with DRAM. But if there is a clear line when a piece of hardware becomes an NPU instead of ASIC, I don't know it. Trio and QFP are unambiguously NPUs, is J2 still ASIC? In addition to J2 supporting NPL it has some unassigned ALUs to add new features with 0 cost. -- ++ytti _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
