Neuristor Circuits to Accomplish Some Digital Computer Operations

Abstract

Digital computer circuits were constructed using neuristors. A neuristor is a one-dimensional channel along which pulses may propagate, the pulses taking the form of propagating discharges having the following properties: threshold stimulability, attenuation less propagation, uniform velocity of propagation, and refractive period following the passage of a discharge past any point of a channel. Two neuristor pulse sequences representing binary numbers are fed simultaneously into a neuristor add circuit; a pulse sequence emerges which represents the sum of the two pulse sequences. Similar circuits are developed for subtraction, multiplication, division and other elementary operations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0268972

Entities

People

  • William C Ross

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Binary Arithmetic
  • Boolean Algebra
  • Circuits
  • Computers
  • Construction
  • Digital Computers
  • Engineering
  • Feedback
  • Generators
  • Government Procurement
  • Inhibitors
  • Numbers
  • Pulse Generators
  • Sequences
  • Storage Rings
  • Time Intervals
  • United States

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  • Physics

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