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- Patent Title: Content addressable memory device, content addressable memory cell and method for single-bit multi-level data searching and comparing
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Application No.: US18459461Application Date: 2023-09-01
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Publication No.: US12094534B2Publication Date: 2024-09-17
- Inventor: Yu-Hsuan Lin , Po-Hao Tseng
- Applicant: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: McClure, Qualey & Rodack, LLP
- Main IPC: G11C15/04
- IPC: G11C15/04 ; G11C7/14

Abstract:
The application provides a content addressable memory (CAM) memory device, a CAM cell and a method for searching and comparing data thereof. The CAM device includes: a plurality of CAM cells; and an electrical characteristic detection circuit coupled to the CAM cells; wherein in data searching, a search data is compared with a storage data stored in the CAM cells, the CAM cells generate a plurality of memory cell currents, the electrical characteristic detection circuit detects the memory cell currents to generate a plurality of sensing results, or the electrical characteristic detection circuit detects a plurality of match line voltages on a plurality of match lines coupled to the CAM cells to generate the plurality of search results; and the storage data is a single-bit multi-level storage data and/or the search data is a single-bit multi-level search data.
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