**Platform introduction: We implement P5 on NetMagic, an Altera FPGA integrated platform. NetMagic contains 8×1Gbps Ethernet ports without 10 Gbps Ethernet port, the detail description can be seen at http://www.netmagic.org. If you are interested in the development of NetMaigc to design your SDN switches, you can join us to open-source project named FAST together. Our website is https://fast-switch.github.io, and my email address is [email protected].

==== P5 is developed in UM(user module) of NetMagic. The structure of P5 is listed here: -----top module: parser | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | sub Module: distributor identifier TCAM ActionRAM extractors resultAccumulator resultMux

distributor: used to distribute packets to distinct extractors; identifier: used to send a type&State value from 8 results to TCAM; TCAM: BV-based Algorithm; ActionRAM: used to store parsing information, e.g. nextState, TypeLocation, FieldLocation and so on. Extractor: used to extract specific fields from identified headers; resultAccumulator: used to accumulate fields extracted by extractors to headerVectors; resultMuxt: a mux to output headerVector one by one from 8 distinct headerVectors.