Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Nathaniel I. Wallace
  • Patent number: 6608771
    Abstract: A method is provided for associating an address with data. The method includes precharging a matchline connected to a plurality of tag match functions to a first potential, wherein each tag match function comprises one or more match logic devices, discharging two tag lines for a first tag bit to ground, and reading a plurality of tag bits and corresponding data bits onto a plurality of tag lines and a plurality of data lines respectively. The method further includes determining a match between the tag bits and data bits, and pulling the matchline to a second potential upon determining a match for each of the tag bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hans M. Jacobson, Prabhakar N. Kudva, Stanley Everett Schuster, Peter W. Cook