A scalable design for VLSI dictionary machines

Most of the proposed VLSI dictionary machines appearing in the literature were designed to fit in one chip only. If the number of acquired elements is larger than that of VLSI cells, another chip has to be designed and manufactured to take a larger dictionary into account. In this paper, we propose a new design for dictionary machines that assembles blocks of standard existing dictionary machines. Our machine is as efficient as the best machines described in the literature, with the enormous advantage of scaling up quite easily, with no degradation of its performance, by simply adding more and more standard blocks.