Computer Science - Operating Systems Concepts - Discussion

It is one of the powerful memory allocation strategies and used in a variety of applications like database searching and indexing and route tables. It is limited due to high cost, and complex circuit design.

It's a type of RAM which generate temporary memory or volatile.

Nice explanation, Thanks.

Nice explanation @Akanksha Singh.

Its address to generated on the memory. Its as a temporary memory.

Associative Memory is also known as Content Addressable Memory.

Imagine that you were writing a blog engine. Instead of storing blog entries in an array of some sort, addressed by memory address or index into the array, you just create nodes out in space. You don't address these nodes with memory addresses. Rather, you attach information to the node like:This is of type 'blog entry. The author is so-and-so. This is the date it was created. These are the categories it belonged to. Stuff like that.

When you want to retrieve an entry by date, you tell the Associative Memory that you want it to give you back Nodes that are of type 'blog entry, ' for which the date they were created on is X. The Associative Memory then looks through it's stores for any node that fits that shape, and then returns it to you.

A storage device in which a data location is identified by its informational content rather than by names, addresses, or relative positions, and from which the data may be retrieved. Also known as associative storage.

Content addressable memory is type of computer memory i.e. that fetch the address of the content is called the associative memory.

It is a type of RAM

The type of memory that be accessed Through by contents rather than memory addresses. Also called CAM (content Addressable Memory). It is also called associative memory, associative storage, or associative array.