The switch fabric architecture has taken center stage in the design community over the past few years. With line card data rates soaring, designers must re-evaluate their backplane architectures in ...

To design communications systems, an engineer may have to juggle several protocols running across a backplane. There are several common strategies to handling the interface for those protocols.

Charles Hill, System Architect, Motorola Computer Group, Schaumburg, IL , Martin S. Won, Senior Member, Technical Staff, Altera Corp., San Jose, Calif. Mesh networks can be used to build distributed ...

Frustrated by the limitations of Ethernet, Google has taken the best ideas from InfiniBand and Cray’s “Aries” interconnect and created a new distributed switching architecture called Aquila and a new ...