An Augmented Content-Addressed Memory Array for Implementation With Large-Scale Integration

A design is presented for an augmented content-addressed memory (ACAM) that can realize arbitrary combinational and sequential logic as well as a repertoire of simultaneously executed but varying word-organized operations. The ACAM array is offered as a useful and efficient module that is highly compatible with large-scale-integrated (LSI) device technology, and which can be used to construct a central processor, certain related peripheral subsystems, and possibly for general digital applications as well.