A VLSI implementation of a SMDS attachment unit over an ICI interface

Author

Corominas, Enric ; Tapia, José M. ; Calderón, Juan C. ; París, Llus

Author_Institution

CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

13-16 May 1996

Firstpage

373

Abstract

The UNICORN project interconnects an Ethernet LAN with a MAN, a SMDS (Switched Multi-megabit Data Service) network, through a B-ISDN network based on SDH and ATM. In the realization of this project, three ASICs have been conceived, one for SDH, one for ATM, and the one presented in this paper, the MPC (MAN Protocol Controller) ASIC. We present the implementation of the ICIP (Inter-Carrier Interface Protocol) protocol on the MPC ASIC. This protocol is used over an ICI (Inter-Carrier Interface) interface to communicate with a SMDS network on a point-to-point basis. The MPC ASIC is used in the ICIP Network Adaptation Unit, a VME64 Double-Height board that can be integrated in the VME Bus to interconnect with the B-ISDN Internetwork Unit and the rest of the UNICORN project

Keywords

B-ISDN; LAN interconnection; VLSI; application specific integrated circuits; metropolitan area networks; network interfaces; transport protocols; ATM; B-ISDN network; Ethernet LAN; ICI interface; ICIP protocol; Inter-Carrier Interface Protocol; MAN; MAN protocol controller ASIC; SDH; SMDS attachment unit; UNICORN project; VLSI implementation; VME Bus; VME64 double-height board; network adaptation unit; switched multi-megabit data service network; Application specific integrated circuits; Asynchronous transfer mode; B-ISDN; Ethernet networks; IP networks; LAN interconnection; Local area networks; Protocols; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 1996. MELECON '96., 8th Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Bari

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3109-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.1996.551559

Filename

551559