Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Youji Kanie

Kazumasa Kioi

A memory, which consumes less electric power and has a longer life, stores a redundant binary code produced by replacing each digit of data in binary representation, with a separate 2-bit string allocated to a value which the digit can take. If a value to be output before or after a value is output from the memory is known, a redundant binary representation and a redundant binary code associated therewith are determined such that the number of transitions can be reduced. Thus, a memory which consumes less electric power and has a longer life can be provided.

Memory storing redundant binary codes and arithmetic unit and discrete

A switching circuit supplies a signal from a write memory selection terminal and its inverted signal to one of a first or a second selector and the other of the first or the second selector according to an output signal from a forward/backward translation selection terminal. In a forward translation process, the first and second selectors select a translated address on a translated address bus in a writing stage and select an input address on an input address bus in a reading stage. In a backward translation process, the selectors select the input address in the writing stage and select the translated address in the reading stage. Consequently, the forward translation and the backward translation are executed using the same translation table. An address translation table memory therefore stores therein only either a translation table for forward translation or a translation table for backward translation.

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