1. A deinterleaving system that associates time slices of a received signal with previously encountered time slices, comprising: a parameter determination component that determines at least one parameter for each received time slice; a ternary content addressable memory that stores a plurality of parameter values associated with the previously encountered time slices, the content addressable memory being searchable such that the determined at least one parameter for each received time slice can be compared to the stored plurality of parameter values to provide a memory output, the stored plurality of parameter values comprising a first parameter value having at least one “don't care” bit as at least one least significant bit as to represent a first range of values, and a second parameter value representing a smaller range of values that is subsumed by the first range of values, the first parameter value and the second parameter value representing the same emitter; and an emitter matching component that associates a given received time slice with one of a plurality of emitters according to the memory output.