Power Considerations in Banked CAMs: A Leakage Reduction Approach

Table 1

Drowsy PB-CAM with two different scaled voltages.

Voltage	1.5 𝑉th	1.25 𝑉th
Drowsy state; leakage reduction	92%	98%
Leakage savings	86%	91%
Dynamic wake-up penalty	2.77 fJ/bit	3.06 fJ/bit