Finite state-machine employing a content-addressable memory
US5125098A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 6, 1989 |
| Grant date | Jun 23, 1992 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 6, 2009 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11C8/00
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A finite-state machine (30), which receives its input on INPUT lines (32) and generates its output on OUTPUT lines (34), is implemented with a content-addressable memory (46), whose output is the address of the location containing the data word presented to the content-addressable memory as its input. The content-addressable memory's input data word is the concatenation of the finite-state-machine input and the content-addressable-memory output, while the content-addressable-memory output is the output of the finite-state machine.
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