Research Article

Hardware Accelerators Targeting a Novel Group Based Packet Classification Algorithm

Table 9

GBSA: comparison with hardware based packet classification accelerators.

Implementation Language Throughput Platform

Xtensa [28] TIE 2.1 Gbsp ASIP
2sBFCE [19] VHDL 1.87 Gbps FPGA
DCFL [14] VHDL 16 Gbps TCAM
GBSA Xtensa TIE 3 Gbps ASIP
GBSA ESL I Handel-C 1.5 Gbps FPGA
GBSA ESL II Impulse-C 1.4 Gbps FPGA
HyperCuts [24] VHDL 3.41 Gbps FPGA