The ASP, a fault tolerant VLSI/ULSI/WSI associative string processor for cost-effective systolic processing

Abstract

The author discusses the Associative String Processor (ASP), a homogeneous, reconfigurable, and programmable parallel processing computational architecture that provides the base technology for the development of high-performance, fault-tolerant computer add-on processors to be applied to a wide range of information processing tasks. He presents the architectural principles and VLSI/ULSI/WSI implementation of the ASP and indicates its cost-performance potential.<>