Course Resources and Labs

This page contains lecture notes provided by the author, Douglas Comer, as well as links to the figures and diagrams that are found throughout the text. It also contains some example lab assignments and the solutions for those assignments. If you are an instructor and you would like to submit links to your own lecture notes and resources, please send your information to <npbook@cs.purdue.edu>.

Lecture Notes

• The author's notes (pdf/733 KB), designed for an upper-level undergraduate course on network processors using the NSD book, Agere Version.

• The author's notes for students (pdf/670 KB), designed for the students to use. These notes are the same as the author's notes linked above, however they have two slides per page and give the student room to make comments while following along.
• Teaching Network Systems Design With Network Processors: Challenges And Fun With Networking (pdf/165 KB), notes from a talk given by Dr. Comer, added 10/8/03
  • Printable, black and white version (pdf/153 KB)

Figures from the Book

The figures are presented to you in two basic manners: with captions and without captions. The figures that are presented to you without captions are presented to you in color as well as in black and white. You can browse the figures using one of the links below.

• Figures and Captions
• Figures in Black and White
• Figures in Color

Although these figures are covered by copyright, the publisher extends permission to any instructor who is using the text to incorporate a copy of figures in instructional materials used with the text.

If you wish, you can download a tarball of all of the figures using one of the links below.

• NSD-AGERE-FIGS-PS.tar.gz (ps/923 KB)
• NSD-AGERE-FIGS-PDF.tar.gz (pdf/504 KB)
• NSD-AGERE-FIGS.tar.gz (ps and pdf/1.4 MB)