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Memory Accessed By its Content Using Parity Bit

Abstract

Content-addressable memory (CAM) is frequently used in applications, such as lookup tables,databases, associative computing, and networking, that require high-speed searches due to its ability to improve application performance by using parallel comparison to reduce search time. Although the use of parallel comparison results in reduced search time, it also significantly increases power consumption. In this paper, we propose a Gate-block algorithm approach to improve the efficiency of low power pre computationbased CAM (PBCAM) that leads to 40% sensing delay reduction at a cost of less than 1% area and power overhead. Furthermore, we propose an effective gatedpower technique to reduce the peak and average power consumption and enhance the robustness of the design against process variations. A feedback loop is employed to auto-turn off the power supply to the comparison elements and hence reduce the average power consumption by 64%. The proposed design can work at a supply voltage down to 0.5 V.

Kiruthika.G, Dr.R. Vijaya Bhasker

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