Reconfigurable signal probing mechanism for a transmutable telecom system

Author

Katayama, Masaru ; Takahara, Atsushi ; Miyazaki, Toshiaki

Author_Institution

NTT Network Innovation Lab., Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

360

Lastpage

365

Abstract

We present a reconfigurable signal probing mechanism for a transmutable telecom system that consists of several function-programmable boards. The signal probing mechanism is installed in one of the programmable boards. It is composed of FPGAs and programmable interconnect switches. The feature of this mechanism is that any bit-stream data in the telecom system can be probed on the fly by appropriately configuring the FPGAs and switches. In addition, if some specialized circuits are implemented in the FPGAs, we can realize a dedicated data prober which can extract structured data such as the ATM cell and IP packet, not simple bit stream. This is one of the most unique features in our signal probing mechanism. This paper describes the probing mechanism as well as its applications

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; signal processing; transport protocols; ATM cell; FPGA; IP packet; bit-stream data; dedicated data prober; function-programmable boards; programmable interconnect switches; reconfigurable signal probing; transmutable telecom system; Telecommunications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 International Workshops on

Conference_Location

Aizu-Wakamatsu

ISSN

1530-2016

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0353-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPPW.1999.800086

Filename

800086