A PRAM (Parallel Random Access Machine) [4] is the parallel computational model most notable for supporting the parallel algorithmic theory. It consists of a number
of processors sharing a common memory. The processors communicate by exchanging data through a shared memory cell. Each processor
can access any memory cell at one unit of time and all processors operate synchronously under the control of a common clock.
These facts make the model a very advantageous platform for considering the inherent parallelism of problems. How ever, the
development of parallel computers which fit this model has not quite matched the theoretical requests. The researches focusing
on the reduction of this gap has been carried out [2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. However, most of them give only theoretical analysis; the implementation of the PRAM on hardware level is seldom seen.
This work is supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)(2) 10205209 (1999) from the Ministry of Education,
Science, Sports and Culture of Japan.
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