METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SAVING AND/OR RESTORING A STATE OF A PATTERN-RECOGNITION PROCESSOR

摘要

Systems and methods (120) are disclosed for saving and restoring the search state of a pattern-recognition processor (14). Embodiments include a pattern-recognition processor (14) having a state variable array (94) and a state variable storage array (96) stored in on-chip memory (103)(on-silicon memory with the processor). State variable storage control logic (98) of the pattern-recognition processor (14) may control the saving of state variables from the state variable array (94) to the state variable storage array (96). The state variable storage control logic (98) may also control restoring of the state variables from the state variable storage array (96) to restore a search state.