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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. 14, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2000
Mihir A. Pandya, Austin, TX (US);
Gary L. Whisenhunt, Austin, TX (US);
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A microprocessor architecture ( ) has a plurality of functional units arranged in a parallel manner between one or more source buses ( and/or ) and one or more result buses ( ). At least one of the functional units within the architecture is a content addressable memory (CAM) functional unit ( ) which can be issued CPU instructions via a sequencer ( ) much like any other functional unit. The operation of the CAM ( ) may be pipelined in one or more stages so that the CAM's throughput may be increased to accommodate the higher clock rates that are likely used within the architecture ( ). One embodiment involves pipelining the CAM operation in three stages ( , and ) in order to sequentially perform data input and precharge operations, followed by match operations, and followed Finally by priority encoding and data output.
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