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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2005
Hari OM, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hari Om, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Netlogic Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A CAM device () according to an embodiment can include a control circuit () that can sequentially activate, with dummy operations, an increasingly larger number of CAM blocks (-to-) in response to a start-up circuit () indication until an initial number of CAM blocks is activated. A control circuit () can receive a user configurable block number (USER_BLK) and adjust the number of CAM blocks in a sequentially fashion, with dummy operations, until the user configurable number of CAM blocks is being activated. If a received command is targeted to less than the user configurable block number of CAM blocks, a control circuit () can activate, with dummy operations, an additional number of CAM blocks so that the total number of CAM blocks activate equals the user configurable block number.