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Integrated circuits, namely, systems-on-a-chip (SoC); System-on-a-Chip (SoC) architecture comprised of hardware and software for facilitating network processing applications, namely, workload load balancing, security, forwarding operations, packet inspection, packet processing, packet routing and performance monitoring applications; Multicore system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture, namely, SoC architecture that facilitates control, management and packet processing in digital communications networks; System-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture for use in microprocessors and application-specific integrated circuits, namely, SoC architecture that facilitates control, management and packet processing in digital communications networks