Auto-sequencing memory

The Auto-sequencing memory (ASM) is an essential part of the non-von-Neumann Anti machine paradigm - in contrast to the von Neumann paradigm (see under von Neumann architecture, where the sequencing mechanism is the program counter, part of the instruction sequencer, which is co-located with the datapath. Traditionally this block, including the datapath unit (ALU, for instance) and the instruction sequencer, is called CPU. The ASM is the key ingredient of the paradigm shift from instruction-stream-based computing to the Reconfigurable Computing paradigm.
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