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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2020
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Diegem, BE;
Can Li, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Catherine Graves, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for an optical ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) are provided. The optical TCAM implements a time-division multiplexing (TDM) based encoding scheme to encode each bit position of a search word in the time domain. Each bit position is associated with at least two time slots. The encoded optical signal comprising the search word is routed through one or more modulators configured to represent a respective TCAM stored word. If a mismatch between at least one bit position of the search word and at least one TCAM stored word occurs, a photodetector or photodetector array will detect light.