SmartDV’s TCAM Synthesizable Transactor is a fully featured Ternary Content Addressable Memory bus model purpose-built for hardware emulation and FPGA prototyping environments requiring fast, accurate, and highly configurable TCAM behavior during pre-silicon validation of networking, routing, and high-performance lookup engine SoC designs. Supporting 100% of the TCAM protocol standard with all standard TCAM commands, it delivers a complete transaction-level TCAM model with flexible width and depth configuration and single-cycle write, read, and search operation, giving validation teams a drop-in synthesizable TCAM transactor ready for rapid integration into emulation and prototyping flows.
Designed for the speed and visibility demands of emulation and FPGA prototyping rather than ASIC tape-out, the transactor emphasizes fast bring-up, fine-grained controllability, and on-the-fly protocol checking over area or power optimization. It supports Write, Read, Mask Write, Mask Read, and Query commands, flexible masking, match-found and match-done flag generation for key availability checking during search operations, response time validation for provided keys, and hardware reset, enabling validation teams to exercise corner-case TCAM behavior that is difficult to reach with production RTL alone.
Built for fast compile times and efficient resource utilization on hardware emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms, the transactor is fully synthesizable and platform-independent, deployable on any hardware emulation or FPGA prototyping platform. Its quick TCAM protocol implementation validation, flexible width and depth configuration, and comprehensive key availability and response time checking enable rapid deployment for early software bring-up and networking system-level validation regardless of the underlying emulation platform.
