DocumentCode
3224547
Title
MACHAM: a best match content addressable memory
Author
Van dé Panne, Michiel ; LeBlanc, Marcel A. ; Vranesic, Zvonko G.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada
fYear
1989
fDate
1-2 June 1989
Firstpage
612
Lastpage
615
Abstract
MACHAM is an acronym for memory addressable by content using Hamming distance. MACHAM is a VLSI chip capable of providing a list of matches sorted by the Hamming distance between the test pattern and stored patterns. This type of content addressable memory is expected to be useful for pattern recognition problems solvable with template matching. The usefulness of the MACHAM chip in a bit-coded character recognizer is discussed. A prototype capable of holding 16 templates of 16 bit has been implemented.<>
Keywords
VLSI; content-addressable storage; integrated memory circuits; 16 bit; Hamming distance; MACHAM; VLSI chip; best match content addressable memory; bit-coded character recognizer; pattern recognition; stored patterns; template matching; test pattern; Associative memory; Cams; Educational institutions; Hamming distance; Pattern matching; Pattern recognition; Prototypes; Sequential analysis; Testing; Very large scale integration;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1989. Conference Proceeding., IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location
Victoria, BC, Canada
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PACRIM.1989.48438
Filename
48438
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