Abstract: For the decoupling between drive lines 9 for applying the firing and extinguishing pulses and supply lines 7 for supplying the sustain voltage, as well as for firing and maintaining discharges in gas discharge display devices, electrodes 2 are applied via conductive multi-layer zones 3 of the surrounding dielectric layer 4, from the supply lines 7 and also via counter-plates provided on the surface of the dielectric layer 4. The counter-plates are interconnected by lines 9, and form with associated counter-electrodes, respective capacitors in which one counter-plate vertical row can represent a first coordinate while the second coordinate may be formed by time-defined shifting of this vertical row of counter-plates in a direction which is vertical with respect to its extension.

Abstract: For associative operation of a storage circuit, two field-effect transistors form one storage cell, i. e. that together with associated capacitors they store either a 1 or a 0. A word line is connected to one electrode of each field-effect transistor in a storage row. At one end of the word line a sensing amplifier with latch characteristics is arranged so that the information sensed by this circuit is amplified and subsequently latched or stored. For the associative operation of the circuit arrangement, two query lines Q0 and Q1 are provided for a bit position. When only one field-effect transistor with a series-connected capacitor is used, the bits of one bit position of the various words are simultaneously written, and the bit positions are addressed one after the other. For a bit position which is queried by means of a key or an identifier word bit "1" the true value of the bit is applied.