MEMORY-LINKED WAVEFRONT ARRAY PROCESSOR
Assignee
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY THE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, A CORP OF MARYLAND
Filed
Sep 17, 1985
Granted
Jan 19, 1988
Location
SILVER SPRING MD US
Abstract
A Memory-Linked Wavefront Array Processor (MWAP) is disclosed which computes a broad range of signal processing, scientific and engineering problems at ultra-high speed. The memory-linked wavefront array processor is an array of identical programmable processing elements linked together by dual-port memory elements that contain a set of special purpose control flags. All communication in the network is done asynchronously via the linking memory elements, thus providing asynchronous global communication with the processing array. The architecture allows coefficients, intermediate calculations and data used in computations to be stored in the linking elements between processing stages. The novel architecture also allows coefficients, intermediate calculations and data to be passed between the processing elements in any desired order not restricted by the order data is to be used by the receiving processing element. Further, each processing element is capable of simultaneous arithmetic computation, multi-direction communication, logic discussions, and program control modifications.
Source: Google Patents
35 USC §181 Secrecy Order
Imposed
Mar 19, 1986
Rescinded
Oct 10, 1986
Duration
6 months
Inventor
- 1QUENTIN E. DOLECEK
Record Details
- Patent number
- US 4720780
- Application
- 06777112
- Aerospace match
- No
- Dataset source
- 35 USC §181 SO records