发明名称 |
A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERCONNECTING CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY DEVICES |
摘要 |
A cam system comprising a plurality of CAM devices connected in a serial cascade arrangement, the CAMS in the cascade being connected to an adjacent CAM by a respective forwarding bus, with at most a first CAM in the cascade being connected to a receive data signals from a host controller and at most a last CAM devices being coupled to forward results back to the host controller; and a send signal generation means for supplying a SEND signal to the last CAM; the SEND signal for co-ordinating transfer of the search result from the last CAM to the host controller, the serial cascade arrangement minimising the number of CAMs being connected to a common forwarding bus. |
申请公布号 |
WO2004003755(A2) |
申请公布日期 |
2004.01.08 |
申请号 |
WO2003CA00968 |
申请日期 |
2003.06.26 |
申请人 |
MOSAID TECHNOLOGIES INC.;BECCA, OSWALD;ROTH, ALAN;MCKENZIE, ROBERT |
发明人 |
BECCA, OSWALD;ROTH, ALAN;MCKENZIE, ROBERT |
分类号 |
G06F13/18;G06F13/42;G06F17/30;G11C15/00 |
主分类号 |
G06F13/18 |
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