Amazon.com just posted my three star review of Network Processors. I had high hopes for this book, but was ultimately frustrated by it. There’s a great Focus-IDS thread here and here on next-generation detection hardware. The Network Processor Forum keeps tabs on the industry. Here’s an article I should have read in 2001 about programming NPUs. Xilinx makes FPGA programmable logic devices (PLDs) The Network Pupilies are the latest in the field.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005/04/review-of-network-processors-posted.html