All the CAM really is, is a soft version of the hard coded logic. What I mean is by using the CAM you have the capability of reloading the 'tables' used for the hard coded decode. In the case of the Xilinx CAM implementation, it is basically an SRL-16 that gets reloaded when…
Read the full replyHas anyone used Content Addressable Memory to perform string matching?
I don't know much of anything about CAM, but I can imagine it would be much more flexible than hard-coding the strings I want to search for. However, will there be a huge hit in speed? I realize they can be read in 1 clk, but will the max speed of the FPGA take a hit?
I don't suppose there are coded examples out there?
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