Dynamic Memories with Rapid Random and Sequential Access

  • Authors:
  • A. V. Aho;J. D. Ullman

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Laboratories;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1974

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Abstract

We propose a new architecture for dynamic memories in which the contents of any cell in memory can be accessed by applying a sequence of two primitive memory operations. The advantage of our memory over previous designs is its fast sequential access. Any word in an n cell memory can be accessed in 0(log n) steps. However, once two consecutive words have been accessed, following words can be accessed in one step per word.