AVR-Chat

On Friday 06 August 2004 07:06, erikc wrote:
> Well, if you want to develop semiconductors, why not a RAM
> chip with a simple processor built in?  The processor would
> have its own small RAM for holding its programmes and a
> means of entering those programmes, causing them to run, and
> getting results off-chip.   You'd load all the little CPU's
> in parallel and let them loose, each one looking at the data
> on its own chip.  Now I'm not talking a CPU with some RAM,
> I'm talking 256 megabytes of RAM and maybe 4K of entirely
> separate RAM for the CPU's code.  Since you are basically
> using it to search for patterns, the CPU could be optimised
> for that.
>
> I actually think there might be a market for that kind of
> thing.

You mean a large, secondary data cache on a simple processor,
or a CPU with mega-registers? 

There's still matter of partial matches spanning boundaries.

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