Intel® IXP42X Product Line of Network Processors and IXC1100 Control Plane Processor
September 2006 DM
Order Number: 252480-006US 465
High-Speed Serial Interfaces—Intel® IXP42X product line and IXC1100 control plane
processors
Figure 94 illustrates that 4 E1 streams can be byte interleaved. The frame pulse occurs
at the first byte of the first E1 stream. No unassigned timeslots are necessary here as
the E1 frames can completely fill all the timeslots available.
When T1 frames are placed on this backplane bus, then unassigned timeslots are
required as a T1 frame is 24 timeslots wide unlike E1, which is 32 timeslots wide.
Byte interleaving involves disregarding four in every sixteen timeslots (as shown in
Figure 95). The first 4 timeslots are unassigned except for the framing pulse, the
following 4 bytes are byte 0 of each T1 frame, the next 4 are byte 1 of each T1 frame
and the next 4 bytes are byte 2 of each T1 frame, the following 4 bytes are again
unassigned. Unassigned timeslots are dictated by the look up tables.
Frame interleaving T1 frames onto this backplane bus would be to process the first T1
frame in its entirety starting with the first timeslot and finishing on the 24th timeslot,
the frame bit/pulse is located on the last bit of the 32nd timeslot.
Figure 94. MVIP, Byte Interleaving Four E1 Streams on a 8.192-Mbps Backplane Bus
B4253-02
00123456701234567
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0a 0b0c 0d
2a 2b 2c 2d 3a 3b 3c 3d4a 4b 4c 4d 5a 5b 5c5d 6a 6b 6c 6d7a7b 7c 7d 8a8b 8c8d
Timeslots
Bits
31d
9a
8.192
MHz clock
Frame pulse
1234567
1d1c1b1a
Figure 95. MVIP, Byte Interleaving Four T1 Streams on a 8.192-Mbps Backplane Bus
0xxxxxxxx 0123457
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Xa Xb Xc Xd 0a 0b 0c 0d 1a 1b 1c 1d 2a 2b 2c 2d Xa Xb Xc Xd 3a 3b 3c 3d 4a 4b 4c 4d 5a 5b 5c 5d
Timeslots
Bits
31d Xa
8.192
MHz clock
Frame pulse
xxxx
xx
x
Unused Bytes
Frame pulse plus 7 unused bits
7