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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2015
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
John A. Wickeraad, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate, in one aspect, to a method for searching an array of content addressable memory (CAM) devices, where each device stores a plurality of entries. The method may obtain a search key from a processor, search a first set of CAM devices in the array to determine whether the first set of CAM devices include a matching entry corresponding to the search key; upon a determination that the first set of CAM devices does not include the matching entry, search a second set of CAM devices in the array to determine whether the second set of CAM devices include the matching entry; and upon a determination that the first set of CAM devices include the matching entry, output an address of the matching entry, without searching the second set of CAM devices.