US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Feb. 18 for "Masking circuit and pre-charge circuit applicable to content addressable memory" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,324, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Masking circuit and pre-charge circuit applicable to content addressable memory" was invented by I-Hao Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A masking circuit of a content addressable memory (CAM) includes a masking control circuit and a level control circuit. The masking control circuit generates a masking signal according to a word line (WL) signal and a write enablement (WE) signal. When both the WL and WE signals are at a first level, the masking signal is a first masking signal; when they are at different levels respectively,...