| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To realize high throughput and large capacity in an associative memory device on the whole by providing an address modification unit, etc., and eliminating the need for plural selective separating operation which specified the throughput in the past. CONSTITUTION:When information data is registered, the registered data is transferred to the address modification unit 103 through a search memory CAM unit 101, RAM unit 102, and control unit 104. The circuit 103 reads flag information and pointer information from the address position (word) of this information, and generates the address of another data part related by the same ID part in the RAM on the basis of said pieces of information to perform the writing to the circuit 102. When retrieval is performed, the same ID part is not registered in the circuit 101, so the plural selective separating operation which specified the throughput in the past is made unnecessary, so even when the number of ID parts increases, the time required for the retrieval processing is constant and the high throughput and large capacity of the device are obtained on the whole. |
