Associative Memory Board (AMB)
Only communicates with AMS for operation and with VME for initial setup at power on.
No error diagnostics, no Spy Buffers.
It has the same functionality as one AM chip, just larger
- some delay as data travel up/down the glue tree
You only need to know how Associative Memory chips work:
AM built around a detector with 6 layers, 12 bit of data each layer
- one layer is special (XTRP) must be always present (could be turned off if desired)
- 5 layers can be used for SVX (only 4 for TDR studies)
- 3-bit layer + 12-bit data = 15-bit SuperStrip (basic concept!)