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

Table 3

Preprocessing phase: number of clock cycles and overall time.

Size	Benchmark						Average
	ACL		FW		IPC
	No. of cycles	Time (ms)	No. of cycles	Time (ms)	No. of cycles	Time (ms)	No. of cycles	Time (ms)
	0.1 k	382,423	2.58	362,496	2.44	391,704	2.64	378,874	2.55
1 k	3,247,248	21.87	2,808,021	18.91	3,340,964	22.50	3,132,077	21.09
5 k	15,052,497	101.38	15,771,953	106.22	15,218,285	102.50	15,347,578.33	103.37
10 k	32,452,174	218.57	31,339,626	211.07	30,663,219	206.52	31,485,006.33	212.05