The paper describes how, with a SOPC (System on a Programmable Chip) architecture embedded with a 32-Bit NIOS-II, a Layer 2 Ethernet switch can be implemented in a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) ...

CopyBack and WriteThrough modes have very similar performance in these tests As the copy size increases a smaller proportion of the application data will be held in either of the L1 or L2 cache, ...