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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2011
Applicant:
Cristian Estan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Cristian Estan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Netlogic Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A CAM-based search engine is disclosed that reduces power consumption during a plurality of different search operations concurrently performed in a plurality of device pipelines by selectively applying one of a number of different power reduction techniques for each pipeline in response to configuration data indicating the type of search operation that is being performed in the pipeline.