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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2010
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., Santa Clara, 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 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 match results for the row. The programmable interconnect structure coupled to each CAM row, and is configured to logically connect any number N of selected CAM rows together to form a data word chain spanning N rows, regardless of whether the selected CAM rows are contiguous.