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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:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stefan P. Sywyk, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Voelkel, Ben Lomond, CA (US);
Assignee:
Lara Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/500 ;
Abstract
According to one embodiment a content addressable memory (CAM) (,) can segment comparand values and data values into portions. Comparand value portions are compared with corresponding data value portions in sequential compare operations. Sequential compare operations can distribute current peaks over two or more compare operations, thereby reducing peak current transients.