DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING TIME-SLOT MULTIPLEXING OF MULTICHANNEL VARIABLE-LENGTH CELLS

摘要

Disclosed are a device and method for supporting time-slot multiplexing of multichannel variable-length cells. The method comprises: an input storage module respectively caching input multichannel variable-length cells, and according to a first time-sequence control command sent by a control logic module, outputting the data of the variable-length cells cached to a gating network module; according to a second time-sequence control command sent by the control logic module, the gating network module comprising a plurality of parallel multiplexers performing gating output on the data of the variable-length cells read out from the input storage module; and the output storage module caching the data of the variable-length cells from the gating network module, and according to a third time-sequence control command sent by the control logic module, outputting the data of the variable-length cells which have completed the time-slot multiplexing. The present invention can in real time process the time-slot multiplexing of multichannel variable-length cells under any relative relationship, thereby guaranteeing the utilization of the bandwidth of each input port and improving the processing flexibility.