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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2012
Applicant:
Chetan Deshpande, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Chetan Deshpande, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 15/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A shared stack dual-phase CAM cell is provided. The CAM cell includes at least first and second stacks that share a single pair of pull-down transistors. At least one pair of pull-down transistors can thus be eliminated, reducing the area and power consumption of the CAM cell. Sharing of the single pair of pull-down transistors is enabled by time-staggered pre-charge and compare operations such that the pre-charge interval of the first stack corresponds to the compare interval of the second stack, and vice versa.