Block diagram simulator
CA 1300265 C · Owner: Newman, William Curtis · Inventors: Newman, William Curtis; Powell, Douglas Baldwin; Titchener, Paul Frederick
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An apparatus and/or method using an automatic program generation computer for generation of a computer program which represents a functional system on a display. A system has a plurality of interactively connected functionality blocks which form a block diagram and typically, the block diagram has one or more feedback loops. Each of the blocks has at least one input, at least some of the blocks have at least one input functionally defined by and connected to at least one of the outputs. At least one of the blocks is a state block whose operation at one time is dependent on the condition of at least one input for the state block at a prior time. A stored update state procedure is provided …
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- Granted May 5, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 5, 2009.
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