| 摘要 |
In order to eliminate or substantially eliminate the need for circuitry to encode the address outputs of a content addressable memory which is equipped to perform sum-of-products logic, the memory contents are stored in such a way that the sum-of-products circuitry can encode the address outputs. A data word may be stored at several different locations in the memory, each of those locations being associated with a respective one of the positions or places in the encoded address that is to contain an affirmative response when the stored data word matches an applied data word. The sum-of-products circuitry of the memory is used to logically combine the outputs of the memory associated with each place of the encoded address in order to produce the appropriately encoded address output signal for that place.
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