Abstract: A memory subsystem includes multiple different caches configured for different types of data transfer operations between one or more processing units and a main memory. The different caches can include a first general cache configured for general random memory accesses, a software controlled cache used for controlling cache operations for different processing devices accessing the same data, and a streaming cache configured for large packet data memory accesses. An arbiter may be used for arbitrating requests by the multiple different caches for accessing the main memory.

Abstract: A system and method for isolating TCP comprises a proxy configured to manage a plurality of sessions including at least one transmission control protocol session, wherein the proxy translates data between the transmission control protocol session and a local session.

Abstract: A system and method comprising a direct memory access (DMA) circuit configured to directly access a memory, and a checksum adder configured to determine a checksum for data transferred between the DMA circuit and the memory.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention is a processor comprising a direct execution parser configured to control the processing of digital data by semantically parsing data; a plurality of semantic processing units configured to perform data operations when prompted by the direct execution parser; and a plurality of output buffers for buffering data received from the plurality of semantic processing units. Another embodiment of the invention is an interface circuit comprising a packer circuit for receiving data from a semantic processing unit and a plurality of buffers for receiving the data. The interface circuit unloads the data received to an interface.

Abstract: A network processing device provides a novel architecture for conducting firewall and other network interface management operations. In another aspect of the invention, a Unified Policy Management (UPM) architecture uses a same memory and processing structure to integrate firewall policy management with routing and switching decisions. In another embodiment, a Reconfigurable Semantic Processor (RSP) uses a parser to identify different syntactic elements that are then used by one or more Semantic Processing Units (SPUs) to carry out different firewall, network interface, routing, switching, and other packet processing operations.

Abstract: A memory subsystem includes multiple different caches configured for different types of data transfer operations between one or more processing units and a main memory. The different caches can include a first general cache configured for general random memory accesses, a software controlled cache used for controlling cache operations for different processing devices accessing the same data, and a streaming cache configured for large packet data memory accesses. An arbiter may be used for arbitrating requests by the multiple different caches for accessing the main memory.

Abstract: A system and method allow client applications to invoke remote procedures on a server application using any of a plurality of remote procedure mechanisms, by selecting a remote procedure call mechanism at runtime. The system and method uses client and server stubs in the application that include an mechanism-independent canonical specification of each procedure interface. The specification defines the form of the interface and arguments, but not does include conventional mechanism-specific marshalling arguments for marshalling the arguments. The resulting compiled stubs may be used with any remote procedure call engine. Such remote procedure call engines receive the specification of the procedure interface and the arguments passed by the client application to the server, and determine at runtime the particular marshalling routines to use, according to the canonical specification.

Abstract: A system and method allow client applications to invoke remote procedures on a server application using any of a plurality of remote procedure mechanisms, by selecting a remote procedure call mechanism at runtime. The system and method uses client and server stubs in the application that include an mechanism-independent canonical specification of each procedure interface. The specification defines the form of the interface and arguments, but not does include conventional mechanism-specific marshalling arguments for marshalling the arguments. The resulting compiled stubs may be used with any remote procedure call engine. Such remote procedure call engines receive the specification of the procedure interface and the arguments passed by the client application to the server, and determine at runtime the particular marshalling routines to use, according to the canonical specification.