Ternary CAM IP Design Using 0.18-um CMOS Technology

Abstract

This paper describes the design and experimental result of 36Kb TCAM using DongBu Electronics 0.18-um CMOS process. The core of chip is composed of Decoder, R/W/C Controller and peripheral circuit. Functional tests successfully performed three primary operations, read, write, and compare. The power consumption during compare operation showed 66.1mW when all bits in TCAM were mismatched.