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| Adaptive environment control system |
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| System for numerically controlling a machine tool |
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| Wear particle disintegrator monitor |
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| Complex analog waveform generator |
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| Second difference function generator |
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| Display advance system for a word processor |
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| Table tennis bat blade |
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Static dataflow computer with a plurality of control structures simultaneously and continuously monitoring first and second communication channels
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Inventors: Sterling, Thomas L.; Chan, Ellery Y.;
Assignee: Harris Corporation (Melbourne, FL)
Primary Examiner: Lee; Thomas C.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Evenson, Wands, Edwards, Lenahan & McKeown
An associative architecture for a static data flow processing system comprises a functional computation unit in which data processing operations are executed, a data processing execution control structure (template) storage and control unit and communication channels through which the functional computation unit and the template storage and control unit communicate with one another. The template storage and control unit controls the supply of data to be processed by the functional computation unit and includes memory for storing a plurality of templates. Each template storage and control unit assembles data processing messages for application to a first of the communication channels for controlling the execution of a data processing operation by the functional computation unit. Each message contains the address of that template to which the result of the data processing operation is returned and stored in a return buffer, an opcode and either the data directly or the address of the template that contains the data to be processed by the functional computation unit. Each template also stores the status of a data processing execution cycle. Each template continuously monitors the communications channels for its address and, upon detecting its address, controllably interfaces prescribed information associated with the execution of a data processing operation with respect to the communication channels. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION Before describing in detail the particular improved computer architecture in accordance with the present invention, it should be observed that the present invention resides primarily in a novel structural combination of conventional signal processing and communication circuits and components and not in the particular detailed configurations thereof.
Accordingly, the structure, control and arrangement of these conventional circuits and components have been illustrated in the drawings by readily understandable block diagrams which show only those specific details that are pertinent to the present invention, so as not to obscure the disclosure with structural details which will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art having the benefit of the description herein.
Thus, the block diagram illustrations of the Figures do not necessarily represent the mechanical structural arrangement of the exemplary system, but are primarily intended to illustrate the major structural components of the system in a convenient functional grouping, whereby the present invention may be more readily understood.
Referring now to FIG.
1, the general architecture of a single node associative template dataflow processing system in accordance with the present invention is shown as comprising a pair of operational (storage/control and execution) units 11 and 13 linked with one another by way of a pair of communication paths 15 and 17.
By single node architecture is meant that all data processing operations with the system are executed within the confines of a self-contained node or processing unit, as contrasted with a multi-node environment, to be described infra, where multiple execution units have their own computational capabilities and share data resources through an inter-node communications architecture.
Within the single node system of FIG.
1, a data storage and control unit 11 and a functional computation unit 13 are mutually linked by way of an operation channel 15 and a result channel 17
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