@inproceedings{c_cagle_holl_southcon_94, abstract = {Content Addressable Memories (CAMs) allow considerably finer-grained parallelism than conventional shared or distributed memory multi-processors. This fine-grained {\&}ldquo;Processor-In-Memory{\&}rdquo; concept can be employed to a large degree during Semantic Network processing in support of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with specific applications in speech and natural language processing. A special-purpose CAM configuration is presented based on requirements for a nominally-sized 64 K node semantic network with 8 bit-markers and 32 relationship types. Analysis for a target application shows that the extensive use of parallel Marker-Propagation and Set Theoretic Operations yields approximately 30-fold speedup over systems with standard Random Access Memories}, address = {Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.}, author = {Cagle, RA and Holl, RB and DeMara, RF }, citeulike-article-id = {87087}, journal = {Southcon/94. Conference Record}, keywords = {demara}, pages = {320--325}, title = {Multifunction content addressable memory for parallel speech understanding}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arNumber=498125}, year = {1994} }