Content-addressable memory
SPECIAL TYPE OF COMPUTER MEMORY USED IN CERTAIN VERY-HIGH-SPEED SEARCHING APPLICATIONS
Associative storage; Content adressable memory; Content addressable memory; CAM (computing); Content-Addressable Memory; Associative Memory Base; Associative memory base; Ternary Content-Addressable Memory; Ternary content-addressable memory; Content-based addressing
Content-addressable memory (CAM) is a special type of computer memory used in certain very-high-speed searching applications. It is also known as associative memory or associative storage and compares input search data against a table of stored data, and returns the address of matching data.