Digital ICs/DSP: Search Engine Managers Run Up To 400 Million Searches/s

Dec. 4, 2003

The HyCognito search engines include soft-core and embedded-array-based versions of the company's Search Engine Managers (SEMs). The blocks can run up to 400 million searches per second. By combining the SEMs with industry-standard DRAMs, the engines can support huge search and classification tables at the lowest possible costs. The company's technology overcomes bandwidth issues associated with DRAMs, providing ternary-CAM-level or better performance. The first of two HyCognito family members is a soft core that targets lower-speed, cost-sensitive designs. The second is an embedded-array-based application-specific standard product for designs supporting several-million deep IPv6 tables running over and above full-duplex 10-Gigabit Ethernet/OC192 links. Silicon implementations of the HyWire SEM start at $250 in lots of 10,000. Contact the company for core license fees.

HyWire Ltd.www.hywire.com

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Dave Bursky

Technologist

Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a technical writing and market consulting company. Prior to these organizations, he spent about a dozen years as a contributing editor to Chip Design magazine. Concurrent with Chip Design, he was also the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products, and prior to Maxim, Dave spent over 35 years working as an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics Command and an editor with Electronic Design Magazine.