{"id":8024,"date":"2026-08-10T06:36:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missinglinkelectronics.com\/devzone\/?p=8024"},"modified":"2026-09-07T05:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:47:18","slug":"npap-scaling-the-number-of-tcp-cores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missinglinkelectronics.com\/devzone\/datasheet\/npap-scaling-the-number-of-tcp-cores\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaling the Number of TCP Cores"},"content":{"rendered":"Scaling the Number of TCP Cores Table of Contents Scaling the Number of TCP CoresEffects of On-Chip Routing:Effects of TCP Bandwidth Sharing:Multiple MLE NPAP Subsystems with a Separate IPv4 Addresses:Hybrid Acceleration: In typical software systems, the cost of opening a TCP connection is quite CPU expensive, and may take a long time because of RTT and processing times in the operating system. Therefore, most software driven systems keep a TCP connection alive \u201cforever\u201d rather than closing it. In software, the low costs of system RAM for storing each TCP connection\u2019s state are not worth the CPU processing costs. For MLE NPAP, each TCP connection which is open at the same time requires a dedicated TCP Core – which costs FPGA \/ ASIC resources. However, if RTT is low such as in a LAN, and with the very low costs of opening and closing a TCP connection in MLE NPAP (a few hundred FPGA clock cycles), \u201ctime sharing\u201d TCP Cores can save a lot of FPGA resources without any negatives. Please refer to the MLE Technical Brief TB20201203 \u201cDeterministic Networking with TSN-10\/25\/50\/100G\u201d for more information on \u201ctime sharing\u201d TCP Cores. Deterministic Networking with TSN-10\/25\/50\/100G Effects of On-Chip Routing: Typically, FPGA routing is a key limiting factor: The more TCP Cores you instantiate, the

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Scaling the Number of TCP Cores In typical software systems, the cost of opening a TCP connection is quite CPU expensive, and may take a long time because of RTT and processing times in the operating system. Therefore, most software driven systems keep a TCP connection alive \u201cforever\u201d rather than closing it. In software, the<\/p>\n

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