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Intel
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IXP45X and Intel
®
IXP46X Product Line of Network Processors
August 2006
Developer’s Manual
Reference Number: 306262 -004US
41
Introduction—Intel
®
IXP45X and Intel
®
IXP46X Product Line of Network Processors
MD5
Message Digest 5
MDIO
Management Data Input/Output
MFAS
Multiframe Alignment Signals
MFS
Maximum Frame Size
MIB
Management Information Base
MII
Media-Independent Interface
MIPS
Million Instructions Per Second
MLPPP
Multi-Link, Point-to-Point Protocol
MMU
Memory Management Unit
MPHY
Multi PHY
MSb
Most-Significant Bit
MSB
Most-Significant Byte
MVIP
Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol
NEG
Negative
NMI
Nonmaskable Interrupt
NPE
Network Processor Engine
NRT-VBR
Non-Real-Time Variable Bit Rate
NRZI
Non-Return To Zero Inverted
OC 3
Optical Carrier 3
OS
Operating System
PBGA
Plastic-Ball Grid Array
PCB
Printed Circuit Board
PCI
Peripheral Component Interface
PCM
Pulse Code Modulation
PEC
Programmable-Event Counters
PDU
Protocol Data Unit
PHY
Physical Layer (Layer 1) Interface
PMU
Performance Monitoring Unit
PRD
Product Requirements Document
PSM
PSM2
Outdated terminology for the NPE (Network Processor Engine)
microprocessor core. The preferred term is NPE core.
QMgr
Queue Manager
RAM
Random-Access Memory
rt-VBR
Real-Time Variable Bit Rate
Rx
Receive
SAR
Segmentation and Reassembly
SDRAM
Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
(See “DDRI SDRAM”)
SFD
Start-of-Frame Delimiter
SHA1
Secure Hash Algorithm 1
SMII
Serial Media Independent Interface
Table 1.
List of Acronyms (Sheet 3 of 4)
Acronym
Description