MEMORY WITH SMALLER, FASTER, AND/OR LESS COMPLEX STORAGE CELLS

摘要

An integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate, an array of random access memory (RAM) cells, which are arranged on the substrate in first columns and are configured to store data, and a computational section including associative memory cells, which are arranged on the substrate in second columns, which are in communication with the respective first columns so as to receive the data from the array of the RAM cells and to perform an associative computation on the data where the computational section includes multiple storage cells configured to store information and where the storage cells are at least one of smaller, faster and less complex than the associative memory cells.