Patent ID: 11908519
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A computer program product for pre-comparing data in a dual compare content addressable memory (“CAM”) device having one or more comparators in a computing environment, the computer program product comprising one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instruction comprising:
program instructions to compare a first compare input and a second compare input of a column in a dual compare content addressable memory (“CAM”) device;
program instructions to generate a pre-compare signal based on comparing the first compare input and the second compare input;
program instructions to compare a first polarity of the first compare input with a first polarity of a storage node data;
program instructions to generate a compare output of the first compare input based on a logic state of the pre-compare signal; and
program instructions to generate a first compare match based on the compare output and a second compare match based on the pre-compare signal.