The PRO3 consortium consists of 5 partners, from 4 European Union Member States. The consortium features Lucent Technologies, a world leading telecom manufacturer, Hyperstone Electronics, a fabless CPU Microelectronics Company, IMEC from Belgium and Ellemedia Technologies from Greece, two research and development institutes who specialise in microelectronics design and telecom networks respectively and NTUA, an academic institute, very active in European research activities in BISDN networks.

The project will design, develop and fabricate a versatile protocol processor to accelerate execution of telecom and data transport protocols by extending a high-performance RISC core with reconfigurable, pipelined programmable hardware. CPU demanding and time consuming low-level protocol functions will be handled in the programmable hardware, while higher layer protocol functions will be handled by the on-chip RISC core in an integrated and parallel way.
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