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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:
Feb. 27, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard Albon, Tavistock, GB;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365 49 ; 36518907 ;
Abstract
A contents addressable memory comprising an array of contents addressable memory cells arranged in rows and columns, each row of the array having a respective case between address bit values of a data word or words to be retrieved from the memory and bit values held by the cells of the respective row, and a chain of cells associated one with each match line to indicate which, if there are more than one, of the match lines indicating a match is of the highest priority.