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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2001
Tarl S. Gordon, Burlington, VT (US);
Rahul K. Nadkarni, Colchester, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A growable CAM array and an ASIC-compatible CAM architecture based on modular cascadable CAM blocks, each CAM block containing a sub-entry including a segment of the match line of a CAM entry, each block's output being its match-line segment's voltage gated by a combinatorial logic gate. Each sub-entry's structure is that of a short CAM entry with a short Match Line (a match line segment) with a small capacitance. Each CAM block outputs a signal that can enable or inhibit a CAM search in the sub-entry in the next CAM block. A variety of exemplary circuits for gating match line segments within CAM blocks, and methods of selecting and combining the resulting variety of CAM blocks to obtain power-savings and/or high performance. An ASIC library including library elements having electrical rules that describe devices within and describe interconnections between the devices within a CAM block.