Abstract
Regular expression (regex) queries are used extensively in data analytics applications. Hardware-based regex searches can make searches efficient across a variety of application domains. However, hardware accelerators that can support arbitrary regular expressions are currently infeasible due to the very large number of possible states and state transitions. This disclosure describes techniques to map an input regular expression to a non-deterministic finite automaton and hardware such as FPGA or ASIC that can be programmed to filter an input data stream to search for arbitrary (customer-given) regular expressions.
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Recommended Citation
N/A, "Programmable Hardware Accelerator For Regular Expression Queries", Technical Disclosure Commons, (October 29, 2020)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/3726