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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2019
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Can Li, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Catherine Graves, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John Paul Strachan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A reprogrammable dot product engine ternary content addressable memory (DPE-TCAM) is provided. The DPE-TCAM comprises a TCAM crossbar array comprising a plurality of match lines and a plurality of search lines. Each search line and match line are coupled together by a memory cell. A plurality of search line drivers are configured to apply a voltage signal to the search lines representing bits of a search word. Current sensing circuitry is coupled to the output of the plurality of match lines and configured to sense a current on the match lines, the sensed current indicating whether the search word and a stored word matched and, if not, the degree of mismatch between the two words.