EE384M Switch Design Tom Edsall. Bus Architecture MACMACMACMACMACMAC FWD.
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Performance Issue with Cross-Bars
Source: M. J. Karol, M.G. Hluchyj, S. P. Morgan, “Input Versus Output Queueing [sic] on a Space-Division Packet Switch”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol COM-35, No 12, December 1987, page 1353
58.6%
3X Speed-up in cross-bar
ClassicCross-Bar2.16Tbps
FIFO 1
FIFO 2
FIFO 3
FIFO 18
20 GbpsEach
60 GbpsEach
FIFO 1
FIFO 2
FIFO 3
FIFO 18
60 GbpsEach
20 GbpsEach
MDS 9500 ImplementationEth
FlashCard
Console
Cross-Bar
Supervisor/Fabric
Back Plane
Arb
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Failures
• Arbitration– Arbiter logic• duplicate arbiters
– Message failure• Cross-bar– duplicate x-bars– load-balance