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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2007
Alan Roth, Austin, TX (US);
Sean Lord, Stittsville, CA;
Robert Mckenzie, Ottawa, CA;
Dieter Haerle, Kanata, CA;
Steven Smith, Wakefield, CA;
Alan Roth, Austin, TX (US);
Sean Lord, Stittsville, CA;
Robert Mckenzie, Ottawa, CA;
Dieter Haerle, Kanata, CA;
Steven Smith, Wakefield, CA;
MOSAID Technologies Incorporated, Kanata, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A priority encoder (PE) for a CAM, comprising a plurality of PE blocks, each receiving a plurality of match results corresponding to data entries in a corresponding data array block and, for determining an address of a highest priority data entry based on a physical location in the data array block during a CAM search-and-compare operation a register for storing a user defined priority value assigned to each PE block and means for evaluating priority values and the address determined by the plurality of PE blocks to select a PE block having the highest priority data entry.