References:
1.Khawar Azad " IXP-1200 Internet Exchange Processor ", http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~scotty/7102/schedule.html , ECE 7102 RISC Architecture Design Student Presentation Friday, 6 October
2. "Network Processing Forum White Papers", http://www.npforum.org/whitepapers.html November 2001
3. Madhu Sudanan Seshadri, John Bent, Tevfik Kosar " Network processors: Guiding design through analysis", http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~johnbent/Projects/net_proc.pdf , November 2001
4. Tammo Spalink, Scott Karlin, Larry Peterson "Evaluating Network Processors in IP Forwarding", http://www.cs.princeton.edu/nsg/papers/ixp.pdf , January 31, 2001
5. Tilman Wolf" Network Processors Flexibility and Performance for Next-Generation Networks", http://ccrc.wustl.edu/~wolf/papers/sigcomm2001.pdf , 23rd April 2001
6. Niraj Shah "Network Processor Comparison", http://www.gigascale.org/mescal/forum/101.html , November 9 2001
7."Motorola's New C-Port Network Processing Solutions", http://www.chipcenter.com/networking/images/prod/prod252.pdf ,October 22, 2001

8. Rohit Kapoor "Network ProcessorS", http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rohitk/NetworkProcessor.htm ", November 2001
9. EZ Chip technologies White Paper " Network Processor Designs for Next-Generation Networking Equipment", http://www.ezchip.com/html/tech_nsppaper.html , December 1999

IBM network processors:
IBM "PowerNP NP4GS3" , http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/wired/products/network_processors.html , July 2000

Intel IXP:
1.Intel "IXP 2800 Network processor ", http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily/ixp2800.htm
2.Radisys Corporation " White Paper http://www.radisys.com/oem_products/opplat.cfm?MS=Network%20Processor%20Products , August 1999
3.Intel white paper ", http://developer.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily/ ,July 1999
4. Rajesh Krishna Balan, Aditya Akella, Srini Seshan "Multi-Modal Network Protocols ", http://gs129.sp.cs.cmu.edu/papers/sosppostersubmission.pdf / , October 2001
5. Harrick Vin " IXP1200 Network Processor Developers Workbench ", http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/vin/Spring2001-CS395T/Taroon/ixp/docs/gettin~1.pdf , Jan 15, 2001
6. Intel "IXP1200 Network Processor Programmer's Reference", http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~shaula/IXP1200prm.pdf , May 2000

Vitesse network processor :
http://www.vitesse.com/products/families.cfm?family_id=5

C5 network processor:
1. Dr . Laurence G. Walker " What Is a Network Processor?", http://www.csix.org/N+I%20pres/NP3%20LWalker.PDF ,May 8 2000
2. Motorola " C-5 Network Processor Architecture Guide", http://e-www.motorola.com/collateral/C5NPD0-AG.pdf " , May 2000
3. Motorola 5GbPs/10GbPs NP Roadmap , http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?nodeId=03M0ylgx1KsM0yrfgwS6, July 2000
4.Motorola "C-5" Network Processor (NP)",http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=C-5E&nodeId=01M994862703126, June 2001
5. Motorola "C-Ware ™ Software Toolset ", http://www.embedded.com/db_area/motorola2002/02moto04.html " , June 2001
6. Dong " Yuping " C-Port C-5TMNetwork Processor",http://nesl.ee.ucla.edu/courses/ee202a/2001f/submissions/dong_yuping/hw1/hw1.htm, January 2001
Workshop on network processors:
1. Patrick Crowley" Mark Franklin Haldun Haldimioglu Peter Onufryk " Workshop on network processors", http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/hpca8/np.pdf, February 2002

Interesting Research:
1. Andrew A. Gray, Jeffrey M. Srinivasan, Yong J. Chong, Allen H. Farrington, Kenneth J. Peters, Valerie M. Stanton "Software/Hardware Reconfigurable Network Processor for Space Networks", http://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon01/Abstracts/Lee_A.pdf , January 2001
2. Computer Engineering Research Group Federal Institute of technology, Zurich , http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~ip3/
3. Mark A. Franklin and TilmanWolf " A Network Processor Performance and Design Model with Benchmark Parameterization", http://ccrc.wustl.edu/~wolf/app/model.pdf , Jan 2002
4. IBM Zurich Research Laboratory "Network processor hardware", http://www.zurich.ibm.com/cs/network_proc_hw/ , Jan 2001
5. Nortel " Dynamically Controlled Routing Software Release 5.2"
", http://www.nortelnetworks.com/products/01/dms500/collateral/74035.16-07-98.pdf , July 1998
6. University of Washington Network Processor Research Group http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/netproc/
7. J. Wagner, R. Leupers " C Compiler Design for a Network Processor", http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/wagner01compiler.html, November 2001
8. Dan Macgill "Highly Adaptive network Processor Architecture and Design", http://www.cmc.ca/news/events/texpo2001/danan_mcgill.pdf ,June 2001
9. Patricia Sagmeister " Scaling Network Processor performance to 40 GbPs",http://www.comsoc.org/tcgn/conference/gbn2001/sagmeister_scaling-presentation.pdf , June 2001
10. Enric Musoll " Architectural Trade-offs in designing a Network Processor for Layers 4-7", http://research.ac.upc.es/CAP/SeminariCAP/netproc.pdf , December 2001
11. Jian Liu " Survey of Network processor", http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~scotty/7102/pres/Liu.ppt , June 2001
12. W. H. Mangione-Smith G. Memik "Network Processor Technologies", http://www.capsl.udel.edu/COMPILER/Network.pdf, December 2001
13. Anders Stenberg " Network processor Core Architecture http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1617/2002/092/ , February 2002
14. Seongbok "Network processor ", http://csl.cs.iit.edu/~sbbaik/np/ , Jan 2002
15. Comet Group in Columbia "Genesis Project", http://comet.ctr.columbia.edu/genesis/
16. Over 20 Presentations from Network Sumit 2000 at Las Vegas http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/vin/Spring2001-CS395T/npref.htm
17. Ezchip Technologies " 7-Layer Packet Processing: A Performance Analysis ", http://www.tradespeak.com/DDocs/1424.asp ,February 2000
18. Greg Byrd "Network Processor Architectures " , http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/academics/CPE/spring01/nparch.pdf, March 2001
19. Lothar Thiele, Samarjit Chakraborty, Matthias Gries, Alexander Maxiaguine, Jonas Greutert " Embedded Software in Network Processors – Models and Algorithms", http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fresco/embedded-software/talks/thiele/thiele.pdf , June 2001 *
20. Siva Subramanian " High Performance Computing on the Internet http://www2.ncsu.edu:8010/eos/service/ece/project/rare/www/present/HpCompute.pdf , July 2000
21. Prof. Kurt Keutzer "A survey of programmable parts-Part1", http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/~mihal/ee244/lectures/soc-prog-plat-3.pdf , December 2001