Research Article

An Impulse-C Hardware Accelerator for Packet Classification Based on Fine/Coarse Grain Optimization

Table 11

Software and hardware implementations of PCIU and GBSA algorithms: a comparison.

Benchmark Desktop Impulse-C
GBSA (ms) PCIU (ms) PCIU ( ) GBSA (ms) PCIU (ms) PCIU ( )

ACL (10 K) 192.1 484 0.4x 24.15 18.06 1.34x
FW (10 K) 163.9 468 0.35x 16.91 17.15 0.98x
IPC (10 K) 190.6 453 0.42x 23.58 16.47 1.43x

Average 182.2 468 0.39 21.55 17.23 1.25x