1.4Gsearch/s 2-Mb/mm2 TCAM Using Two-Phase-Pre-Charge ML Sensing and Power-Grid Pre-Conditioning to Reduce Ldi/dt Power-Supply Noise by 50%.

This paper describes two power-supply noise (Ldi/dt) management techniques implemented in a 14-nm ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) compiler that allows a 2K × 640 b instance to perform 1.4Gsearches/s while achieving a density of 2 Mb/mm2. This represents a 15% better performance and 10% better density than previous state-of-the-art TCAM. The first technique reduces the within-cycle noise ...