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The GLUEchip: A custom VLSI chip for detectors readout and associative memories circuits

Conference · · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)
OSTI ID:5947979
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  1. Univ. of Sassari and INFN, Pisa (Italy)
  2. Univ. and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy). INFN
  3. Univ. and LNS, Catania (Italy)
  4. Univ. and INFN, Bologna (Italy)

An associative memory full-custom VLSI chip for pattern recognition has been designed and tested in the past years. It's the AMchip, that contains 128 patterns of 60 bits each. To expand the pattern capacity of an Associative Memory bank, the custom VLSI GLUEchip has been developed. The GLUEchip allows the interconnection of up to 16 AMchips or up to 16 GLUEchips: the resulting tree-like structure works like a single AMchip with an output pipelined structure and a pattern capacity increased by a factor 16 for each GLUEchip used.

OSTI ID:
5947979
Report Number(s):
CONF-921005--
Journal Information:
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) Vol. 40:4 part 1; ISSN 0018-9499; ISSN IETNAE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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