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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1999
Alexander Joffe, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Oran Uzrad-Nali, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Simon H. Milner, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
When a search key is supplied to a content addressable memory (CAM), the CAM signals indicate which CAM entries have matched the key. These signals are provided to a weight array to select the entry of the highest priority. Each entry's priority is indicated by a weight in the weight array. The weight array processing is pipelined. In pipeline stage , the most significant bits (bits ) of the weights are examined, and the highest priorities are selected based on the most significant bits. At pipeline stage , the next most significant bits (bits ) are examined, and so on.