Emerging Trends in Design and Applications of Memory-Based Computing and Content-Addressable Memories

Robert Karam; Ruchir Puri; Swaroop Ghosh; Swarup Bhunia

doi:10.1109/JPROC.2015.2434888

Emerging Trends in Design and Applications of Memory-Based Computing and Content-Addressable Memories

Robert Karam, Ruchir Puri, Swaroop Ghosh, Swarup Bhunia

Electrical Engineering

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Content-addressable memory (CAM) and associative memory (AM) are types of storage structures that allow searching by content as opposed to searching by address. Such memory structures are used in diverse applications ranging from branch prediction in a processor to complex pattern recognition. In this paper, we review the emerging challenges and opportunities in implementing different varieties of CAM/AM structures. Beyond-CMOS silicon and nonsilicon memory technologies hold significant promise in implementing dense, fast, and energy-efficient CAM/AM structures. We describe circuit/architecture level implementations of CAM/AM using these technologies, as well as novel applications in different domains, including informatics, text analytics, data mining, and reconfigurable computing platforms.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	7159147
Pages (from-to)	1311-1330
Number of pages	20
Journal	Proceedings of the IEEE
Volume	103
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2015.2434888
State	Published - Aug 1 2015

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