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NetLogic Microsystems, a leading global high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions provider for next-generation Internet networks, has recently announced that its industry-leading XLP multi-core processor has achieved 300-400 percent performance benchmark.

Several Tier One customers participated in the real-world performance benchmarks in order to validate that NetLogic (News - Alert) Microsystems’ industry-leading XLP multi-core processor delivers 300-400 percent consistent performance improvement, as compared to other competing multi-core communications processors.

The validation process was conducted in multiple actual OEM system designs which are running real-world, field-proven software applications across numerous systems addressing wireless infrastructure, deep-packet content processing, enterprise networking, control plane processing, and security and storage markets.

NetLogic Microsystems’ (News - Alert) XLP multi-core processor architecture has been designed to provide unparalleled processing performance with scalability up to 128 NXCPUs, each operating at up to 2.0 GHz and based on a best-in-class superscalar engine and out-of-order execution capabilities for converged data plane and control plane processing. The 128 NXCPUs have the capability to offer a full cache and memory coherency over the high-speed Inter-chip Coherency Interface (ICI), enabling software applications to seamlessly run in Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) or Asymmetric Multi Processing (AMP) modes and enables the XLP multi-core processor to integrate a broad range of high-speed networking interfaces, including Interlaken, XAUI, SGMII, PCI (News - Alert)-Express, and USB2.0.

In a combination with the 128 NXCPUs, the XLP processor provides independent and complete offload of certain network functions from the NXCPUs, which includes, 160 Gbps fully-autonomous Security Acceleration Engines supporting networking, wireless and storage encryption/decryption/authentication protocols; 160 Gbps Network Acceleration Engines for Ingress/Egress Packet Parsing and Management; 512 Gbps RAID-5/RAID-6 Acceleration; 40 Gbps Compression/Decompression; Packet Ordering; Storage De-Duplication Acceleration; TCP Segmentation Offload; and IEEE (News - Alert) 1588 Hardware Time Stamping.

In a release, the Executive Vice President and General Manager at NetLogic Microsystems, Mr. Behrooz Abdi, said that, “Having customer validations showing 3-4x performance improvement by multiple Tier One OEMs running their real-world applications only four months after we started sampling our revolutionary XLP multi-core processors, gives us a clear, unmatched leadership position in multi-core communications processors. This comes at an ideal time as the communications industry desperately needs significant breakthroughs in performance and power profiles to keep pace with the dramatic increase in bandwidth and traffic complexity.”

The Principal Analyst of The Linley Group, Linley Gwennap, added that, “These performance benchmarks span a wide variety of OEM systems, including LTE base stations, LTE gateways, 3G base stations, network security appliances, service gateways, deep-packet inspection (DPI) ATCA sub-systems, and network storage appliances. This performance advantage will help NetLogic Microsystems overcome bottlenecks in network infrastructure and address next-generation LTE, data center and enterprise networking opportunities.”

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