Darfur Peace and Accountability Act
The Darfur Peace and Accountability Act (H.R. 3127/S. 1462) or DPAA restates the United States government's position that the Darfur conflict constitutes genocide, asks the government to expand the African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur (AMIS) and give the force a stronger mandate, including more generous logistical support. It also directs the government to assist the International Criminal Court to bring justice to those guilty of war crimes in Darfur, Sudan. It was passed by the House and Senate and signed into law by President Bush on 13 October 2006 along with a companion executive order.
Legislative history
The House's DPAA bill (H.R. 3127) was introduced on June 30, 2005, by Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL). There were 162 co-sponsors of the bill. H.R. 3127 passed in the House 416 to 3 on 5 April 2006.
The Senate's DPAA bill (S. 1462) was introduced on 21 July 2005, by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS). There were 38 senators who co-sponsored the bill. S. 1462 was passed by the Senate by unanimous consent on 18 November 2005, with some alterations.
Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA)
The QorIQ™ DPAA is a comprehensive architecture which integrates all aspects of packet processing in the SoC, addressing issues and requirements resulting from the multicore nature of QorIQ™ SoCs. The DPAA includes Cores, Network and packet I/O, Hardware offload accelerators. The infrastructure required to facilitate the flow of packets between the above.
The DPAA also addresses various performance related requirements especially those created by the high speed network I/O found on multicore SoCs such as the P4080.
