摘要 |
<p>A CAM device comprising a tag section (12a) where parity bits and their inverted bits, and tags corresponding to addresses are stored in entries, a data section (12b) where data is stored in entries correspondingly to the entries, comparators (200 to 2031) for comparing a search address with each entry of the tag section (12a), and an examining section (112) for examining the cause of a multi-hit, or multiple agreement found as the result of the comparison according to the parity bits and inverted parity bits after the contents of the entries are ORed.</p> |