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Boolean logic processor without accumulator output feedback

US4331893A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 28, 1979
Grant dateMay 25, 1982
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Expiry dateNov 28, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F9/30094
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A clocked digital Boolean processor which responds to operation code signals and to successive single bit input (operand) signals to drive a single bit accumulator to output the successive answers of chained Boolean operations. The hardware elements are configured such that no feedback of the accumulator output (the previous answer) is required because the logic circuits determine the setting or resetting of the accumulator regardless of what the previous answer was--and yet such that the new answer represents the result of a LOAD, AND, OR or EX-OR operation performed as if the input operand and the previous answer were taken as two operands.

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