Research Article

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

Table 2

Benchmark rule sets and traces.

Benchmark ACL FW IPC
Size Rule Trace Rule Trace Rule Trace

0.1 k 98 1000 92 920 99 990
1 k 916 9380 791 8050 938 9380
5 k 4415 45600 4653 46700 4460 44790
10 k 9603 97000 9311 93250 9037 90640