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Low-Power TCAMs for Very Large Forwarding Tables. Authors: Wencheng Lu and Sartaj Sahni , Fellow, IEEE Conf. : IEEE/ACM Transactions on networking, 2010 Presenter : JHAO-YAN JIAN Date : 2011/3/15. The simplest TCAM solution.
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Low-Power TCAMs for Very Large Forwarding Tables Authors:Wencheng Lu and Sartaj Sahni, Fellow, IEEE Conf. :IEEE/ACM Transactions on networking, 2010 Presenter : JHAO-YAN JIAN Date : 2011/3/15
The simplest TCAM solution • The simplest TCAM solution to packet forwarding requires one TCAM search and one SRAM access to forward a packet. • The power consumption is that for a TCAM of this size.
POSTORDER SPLIT • The DTCAM buckets are filled using as many rounds of feasible tree carving and packing as needed to completely carve out . • In each round, we select the bucket B with the fewest forwarding-table prefixes. • The preorder traversal.
SIMPLE TCAM WITH WIDE SRAM • 25 (50) is a rather crude estimate of the number of instructions needed to process a 72-bit (144-bit) suffix node. • We can make 100 M SRAM accesses per second using a 10-ns SRAM and perform about 20 G instruction per second using a 3.2-GHz dual-core processor. • Therefore, about 200 instructions can be executed in the time it takes to make an SRAM access. • The time to process a 72-bit (144-bit) suffix node is only about 1/8 (1/4) that of an SRAM access.