Parallel Automata Processor
Arun Karthi Subramaniyan, Reetuparna Das · 2017
Finite State Machines (FSM) are widely used computation models for many application domains. These embarrassingly sequential applications with irregular memory access patterns perform poorly on conventional von-Neumann architectures. The Micron Automata Processor (AP) is an in-situ memory-based computational architecture that accelerates non-deterministic finite automata (NFA) processing in hardware. However, each FSM on the AP is processed sequentially, limiting potential speedups.