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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2022
Applicant:
Macronix International Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Macronix International Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11C 15/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G11C 15/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems, devices, methods, and circuits for managing content addressable memory (CAM) devices. In one aspect, a semiconductor device includes: a memory cell array configured to store data in memory cells, and a circuitry coupled to the memory cell array and configured to execute a search operation in the memory cell array according to a search instruction. The search instruction includes at least one of search data or an option code, and the option code specifies, for the search operation, at least one of a search length or a search depth.