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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2021
Mediatek Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Chetan Deshpande, San Jose, CA (US);
Sushil Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Gajanan Sahebrao Jedhe, San Jose, CA (US);
Ritesh Garg, San Jose, CA (US);
Gaurang Prabhakar Narvekar, San Jose, CA (US);
MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A content addressable memory (CAM) device includes multiple CAM sub-banks Each CAM sub-bank includes an array of CAM cells arranged in rows and columns and partitioned into a first stage and a second stage along a column dimension. Each CAM sub-bank further includes first-stage match lines (MLs), first-stage search line (SL) pairs, second-stage MLs, and second-stage SL pairs. Each second-stage SL pair is coupled to a column of CAM cells in the second stage and is gated by an SL enable (SL_EN signal). Each CAM sub-bank further includes a circuit operative to receive all of the first-stage MLs as input and de-assert the SL_EN signal when none of the first-stage MLs indicate a match. De-assertion of the SL_EN signal blocks a second portion search key from being provided to the second-stage SL pairs.