ED&TC'97

On the Way to the 2.5 Gbit/s ATM Network.
ATM Multiplexer/Demultiplexer ASIC

Jacobo Riesco
jacobo@geocities.com
Juan Carlos Díaz
jcdiaz@tid.es
Luis A. Merayo
 
José Luis Conesa
conesa@tid.es
Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
Emilio Vargas, 6, 28043 Madrid. Spain.

Carlos Santos
perez@sidsa.es
SIDSA
Isaac Newton, 1. 28760 Tres Cantos (Madrid). Spain.

Eduardo Juárez
juarez@die.upm.es
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
ETSI Telecomunicación. Ciudad Universitaria, s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain.

European Design and Test Conference (ED&TC'97)
Paris (France). March 17-20, 1997.

ABSTRACT
The present paper describes the AMDA integrated circuit (ATM Multiplexer/Demultiplexor ASIC). The circuit has two operation modes: in multiplexer mode an ATM low speed flow (up to 622 Mbits/s) is inserted in the empty slots of a high speed ATM flow (2.5 Gbits/s); in demultiplexer mode, the cells belonging to the low speed channels are extracted from the high speed ATM flow. An specific algorithm of distributed control has been developed, simulated and implemented, in order to guarantee an even bandwidth distribution independently of the network node position. The circuit is able to handle 8K connections, with four different qualities of service; it manages a local queue of up to 16K ATM cells using an external high speed SSRAM. The maximum clock frequency of the circuit is 155,52 MHz and it has been processed with the LSI-LOGICÕs LCB500K technology (0,5 mm CMOS). It contains 34800 equivalent gates, 48 Kbit of single port memory and 8,5 Kbit dual port memory, using an area of 6,7 x 6,7 mm and it is packaged in a 208 pins QFP.


Related files:
[Paper (PDF)] edtc97.pdf Paper (Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format PDF)
[Slides (PDF)] edtc97pp.pdf Presentation Slides (PDF)

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