Enhanced TCAM BIST Agent

הרקע לפרויקט:

TCAM is a special type of computer memory used in certain very-high-speed searching applications. It is also known as associative memory or associative storage and compares input search data against a table of stored data, and returns the address of matching data. At Marvell a TCAM BIST unit connects to it in order to test it. In verification the interface between the TCAM and the TCAM BIST unit is written as an agent, which can be run in 3 modes: master (replacing the TCAM BIST unit), slave (replacing the TCAM) and monitor (observing transactions on the interface).

מטרת הפרויקט:

An existing TCAM BIST agent does not support all TCAM functionality in master/slave modes. Need to explore TCAM and TCAM BIST unit behaviour in order to implement the required missing modes.

תכולת הפרויקט:

Expansion of the agent with the aim of supporting the compare function, investigation of TCAM compare algorithms and implementation of the algorithms in the following agent

קורסי קדם:

• משולבים 83313

דרישות נוספות:

אין

מקורות:

1. Yu, Fang, Randy H. Katz, and Tirunellai V. Lakshman. "Gigabit rate packet pattern-matching using TCAM." Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, 2004. ICNP 2004.. IEEE, 2004.
2. Grigoryan, H., et al. "Generic BIST architecture for testing of content addressable memories." 2011 IEEE 17th International On-Line Testing Symposium. IEEE, 2011.