The switch fabric architecture has taken center stage in the design community over the past few years. With line card data rates soaring, designers must re-evaluate their backplane architectures in ...

High-speed serial fabrics are becoming commonplace in both proprietary and commercial off-the-shelf systems. These systems use a variety of topologies including “mesh” and “star” configurations. Both ...

Charles Hill, System Architect, Motorola Computer Group, Schaumburg, IL , Martin S. Won, Senior Member, Technical Staff, Altera Corp., San Jose, Calif. Mesh networks can be used to build distributed ...

At the moment fashion sensibilities are enjoying getting entangled in a “meshy” affair. Making the best use of the ‘barely there yet hardly missed’ mesh, crochet and fine net fabrics are big names ...