Cisco Technology, Inc.

Eliahu Shapiro

Doron Shoham

Shimon Listman

Error protection for lookup operations in a content-addressable memory (CAM) entries is disclosed. Values extended to include error protection or error protection fields are stored in CAM entries and a lookup operation is performed on a similarly extended lookup word to determine whether or not an entry is matched, that is, if all or all but some predetermined number of bits match one of the extended entries. For example, one implementation includes multiple CAM entries and logic configured to perform a lookup operation in parallel on each of the CAM entries based on a lookup word to determine whether or not a hit results, where the hit is determined if an entry matches the lookup word in all or all but k bit positions, where n and k are integers, n&#x3e;k, and k&#x3e;0.

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Katzir, Israel

Eliahu Shapiro