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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 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 ...
G11C 15/00 (2006.01); G11C 15/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 15/04 (2013.01); G11C 15/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A content addressable memory (CAM) device to dynamically reduces power consumption between a search key and data stored in a plurality of CAM blocks by selectively disabling a number of CAM blocks, requested for the search operation by an external network processor, based upon the contents of the search key.