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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2008
Maheshwaran Srinivasan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Varadarajan Srinivasan, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Sandeep Khanna, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sachin Joshi, Fremont, CA (US);
Mark Birman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Maheshwaran Srinivasan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Varadarajan Srinivasan, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Sandeep Khanna, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sachin Joshi, Fremont, CA (US);
Mark Birman, Los Altos, CA (US);
NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A content addressable memory (CAM) device includes a CAM array, a programmable interconnect structure, and a priority encoder. The CAM array includes a plurality of CAM rows, each row including a number of CAM cells for storing a data word and coupled to a match line that indicates a match result for the CAM row. The programmable interconnect structure is coupled to each CAM row and is configured to selectively route the match results from a first CAM row as an input match signal to any number of arbitrarily selected CAM rows at the same time.