Processing element for parallel array processors
CA 1165005 A · Owner: Goodyear Aerospace Corporation · Inventors: Batcher, Kenneth E.
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A processing element constituting the basic building block of a massively-parallel processor. Fundamentally the processing element includes an, arithmetic sub-unit comprising registers for operands a sum-bit register, a carry-bit register a shift, register of selectively variable length and a full, adder. A logic network is included with each processing element for performing the basic Boolean logic functions between two bits of data. There is also included a multiplexer for intercommunicating with neighboring processing elements and a register for receiving data from and transferring data to neighboring processing elements. Each such processing element includes its own random access memory …
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- Granted April 3, 1984. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 3, 2001.
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