A fully-parallel information detection hardware system employing Content Addressable Memory

A new information detection method has been proposed for a very fast and efficient search engine. This method is implemented on hardware system using FPGA. We take advantages of Content Addressable Memory (CAM) which has an ability of searching and matching mode for designing the system. The CAM blocks have been designed using available memory blocks of the FPGA device to save access times of the whole system. The entire memory can return multi-matched results concurrently. The system operates based on the CAMs for pattern matching in parallel manner to return multiple addresses of multi-matched results. Based on the parallel multi-matching operations, the system can be applied for pattern matching with various required constraint conditions without using any search principles. The very fast multi-matched results 60ns are achieved at the operational frequency 50 Mhz. Thus increases the matching performance of the information detection system which uses this method as the core system.