A General-Purpose CMOS Associative Processor IC and System

  • Authors:
  • Charles D. Stormon;Nikos B. Troullinos;Edward M. Saleh;Abhijeet V. Chavan;Mark R. Brule;John V. Oldfield

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

An associative processor architecture that integrates the functionality of content-addressable memory (CAM), functional memory (FM), and associative parallel processors (APPs) in a single-chip architecture is described. The hardware design, environment and applications of the Coherent Processor, a microchannel memory device designed by combining 16 such chips, are discussed. It is shown that the processor's writable control store permits quick execution of application-specific microcoded operations.