Title
Error Detection and Correction in Content Addressable Memories.
Abstract
A Content Addressable Memory (CAM) is an SRAM based memory which can be accessed in parallel in order to search for a given search word, providing as result the address of the matching data. The use of CAM is widespread in many applications ranging from the controller of a CPU memory cache to the implementation of lookup tables of high speed routers. Like conventional memories, CAM can be affected by the occurrence of Single Event Upsets (SEU) which can alter its operation causing different effects such as pseudo-HIT or pseudo-MISS events. In order to avoid the effects of SEUs different approaches have been proposed in previous literature, but all of these solutions require changes to the internal structure of the CAM itself. Differently from previous approaches, in this paper we propose a method that does not require any modification to a CAM’s internal structure and therefore can be easily applied at system level, using a suitable redundant CAM component in order to obtain a CAM module with error detection and correction capabilities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/DFT.2010.56
Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
internal structure,cpu memory cache,cam module,error detection,search word,previous approach,content addressable memories,suitable redundant cam component,different effect,previous literature,conventional memory,seus different approach,error detection and correction,lookup table,transistors,cam,content addressable memory,associative memory,error correction,impedance matching,computer aided manufacturing,encoding
Computer-aided manufacturing,Lookup table,Content-addressable memory,Computer science,CPU cache,Real-time computing,Static random-access memory,Error detection and correction,Content-addressable storage,Computer hardware,Encoding (memory)
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-5774
978-1-4244-8447-8
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Salvatore Pontarelli136854.05
M. Ottavi216619.26
A. Salsano39013.37