A novel AND-type match-line scheme with XOR-based conditional keeper for ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) are presented in this paper. The XOR-based conditional keeper is turned off at some critical moments to reduce the search time and power consumption. High fan-in AND-type match-line schemes are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the XOR-based conditional keeper in the presence of noise sources. 37.8% search time reduction and 15.6% power saving are achieved by using the proposed TCAM architecture. Based on TSMC 0.13 mum CMOS technology at 1.2 V supply voltage, a 256 words times 128 bits ternary CAM is designed. The simulation results show that the search time of proposed TCAM architecture is 1.17 ns and energy metric of proposed TCAM architecture is 0.752 fJ/search