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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alex E. Henderson, Hillsborough, CA (US);
Walter E. Croft, San Mateo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
A boundary addressable memory (BAM) array comprises a plurality of BAM word modules, each BAM word module comprises a plurality of BAM cells for performing arithmetic comparisons between input data and an upper bound value and a lower bound value stored in each BAM cell to generate a matching signal indicating whether the input data is not greater than the upper bound value and not less than the lower bound value or whether the input data is not greater than the lower bound value and not less than the upper bound value.