A Building Block Approach to Network Control

A Building Block Approach to Network Control (440k)
By Chris Hanna, THAT Corporation
Paper 13-023, AES 13th International Conference, December 1994

Adding a network interface to a microprocessor-controlled product significantly complicates the product design. This paper describes a method of minimizing this added complexity by encapsulating the network interface in its own processor and providing a simple, standard internal communications interface between the network processor and the host processor.