Pipelined and sliced shared-memory switch

摘要

A pipelined switch fabric device has a plurality of memory units between a plurality of input ports and at least one output port. Each memory unit has multiplexer for sequentially receiving sliced words from at least one of the input ports, a buffer for temporarily storing the sliced words, and a de-multiplexer for transmitting the sliced words to at least one output port. The switch fabric device has a switch controller for selecting each of the memory units to receive each of the sliced words and for selecting at least one output port for each of the memory units to send each of the sliced words.