On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 20:39, James Bensley
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Back in the 7600s it was NPU based, and what we call NPUs today are
> sometimes a collection of ASICs that form a "complex of ASICs". That
> is what powered the 7600, the NP3C NPU. 7600s used a group of ASICs
> working together to perform forwarding lookups, buffering, backplane
> sending/receiving etc.

NP3C was on ES20+ (not ES20). The ASR9k Trident was the same EZchip
NP3C. But of course the vast majority of 7600 linecards were PFC3,
clearly not a NPU.

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