Network Processors

Acknowledgments

While writing, many assisted me in various ways—too many to list here, and I thank them all. However, I must thank first and foremost a dear friend, Eli Fruchter, who I have known for the last 25 years since we started working together as engineers. Eli founded EZchip and has headed the company from the beginning, and he agreed to disclose EZchip’s architecture and have it included in this book. Amir Eyal, EZchip’s vice president of business development, who knows the NPU market and technology inside out, provided me with his vision and insight into this field. Eyal Choresh, vice president of software at EZchip, whom I also have known for many years, assisted me in explaining the NP architecture’s details, as well as providing ...