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14 years ago

Handling large arrays in VHDL

I have a constant array of integers (2^8 words deep) declared in VHDL. Each entry is a random number in the range 0-65535. There is a nonlinear mapping between the random numbers and the index of the...
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14 years ago

I think what you need is CAM (content addressed memory).

Haven't used it myself but it outputs the address(s) if given data content.

Make a search for CAM RAM