Editing Load-balanced switch (section)

===Single chip crossbar plus load-balancing arbiter===
The [[Stanford University]] '''Tiny Tera''' project (see [[Abrizio]]) introduced a switch architecture that required at least two chip designs for the switching fabric itself (the crossbar slice and the arbiter).  Upgrading the arbiter to include load-balancing and combining these devices could have reliability, cost and throughput advantages.