Design of a VLSI Broadcast Translation Circuit

This paper describes the design of a Broadcast Translation Circuit chip. The Broadcast Translation Circuit (BTC) provides unique addresses for each of the copies of a broadcast packet replicated by the copy network in a Broadcast Packet Switch [Tu85], [Tu86]. During a packet cycle or epoch, a packet is then passed on to the routing or distribution network. This chip has been fabricated in 2.0 μm CMOS technology