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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. 05, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Zohair M Sahraoui, Ottawa, CA;
John M Chapman, Ashton, CA;
James S Fujimoto, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Andrew E King, Kanata, CA;
Andrew C LaCroix, Toronto, CA;
Steven W Wood, Kanata, CA;
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Corporation, Montreal, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
326 39 ; 326 41 ;
Abstract
An array architecture built out of content addressable memories (CAMs) is disclosed. This architecture is re-programmable and exhibits pre-synthesis deterministic timing behavior. This architecture can be re-programmed to store control-flow as well as data-flow dominated applications. The target application is partitioned into basic functional units, which are then transformed to a representation suitable for storage in CAMs.