Hybrid computing apparatus of automatic connection type

• US 3,875,378 A
• Filed: 09/01/1972
• Issued: 04/01/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kenji Maio, Norio Yokozawa, Shigeru Watanabe
• Original Assignee: Kenji Maio, Norio Yokozawa, Shigeru Watanabe
• Inventors: Maio, Kenji, Yokozawa, Norio, Watanabe, Shigeru
• Primary Examiner(s): Ruggiero, Joseph F.
• Application Number:
  US05/285,908
• Time in Patent Office: 942 Days
• Field of Search: 235/150.5,150.51,150.52,150.53,197,150.4 340/172.5
• US Class Current: 708/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06G 7/06 Programming arrangements, e.g. plugboard for interconnecting functional units of the computer; Digital programming hybrid computers G06J

Abstract

A hybrid computer automatically connecting a plurality of computing elements, for example integrators of an analog computer by an instruction signal from a digital computer to perform a desired computation is equipped with an automatic control system for the mode control of the integrators of the analog computer. When the digital computer decodes a program written in a simulation language and supplies an instruction signal to the automatic control system, the automatic control system controls the mode of the integrators of the analog computer based on the instruction signal.

Claims

1. A hybrid computing apparatus of the automatic connection type comprising a digital computer for producing an instruction signal, an analog computer having a plurality of analog computing elements including integrators, and an automatic control system for controlling the mode of operation of selected ones of said integrators of said analog computer in accordance with the instruction signal from said digital computer, said automatic control system including comparators for decision on the end result of the computation of said integrators, means for supplying an output of said comparators to said digital computer, means for generating a mode of operation control signal for said integrators and a switch for supplying the mode of operation control signal to said integrators in accordance with outputs of said comparators.

2. A hybrid computing apparatus of the automatic connection type comprising a digital computer for producing an instruction signal, an analog computer having a plurality of analog computing elements including integrators, and an automatic control system for controlling the mode of operation of selected ones of said integrators of said analog computer in accordance with the instruction signal from said digital computer, said automatic control system including means for storing the instruction signals from said digital computer, a logical gate matrix arrangement including a plurality of AND circuits arranged in a matrix form, function switches, each of said AND circuits being supplied with signals from said function switches and said storing means, and means for supplying outputs of said AND circuits to the integrators.

3. A hybrid computing apparatus of the automatic connection type comprising a digital computer for producing an instruction signal, an analog computer having a plurality of analog computing elements including integrators, and an automatic control system for controlling the mode of operation of selected ones of said integrators of said analog computer in accordance with the instruction signal from said digital computer, said automatic control system including a comparator for decision on computation time, a reference time setter for generating a reference time setting signal, a ramp signal generator for generating a ramp signal, means for applying the reference time setting signal and the ramp signal to the comparator, means for controlling the slope of the ramp signal by the instruction signal from said digital computer, and means for feeding an output signal from said comparator to said integrators.

4. A hybrid computing apparatus of the automatic connection type comprising a digital computer for decoding a program written in a simulation language and producing an instruction signal, an analog computer having a plurality of fIrst analog computing elements including integrators, and an automatic control system including second analog computing elements different from the first analog computing elements of said analog computer, said second analog computing elements of said automatic control system each corresponding to a respective one describing forms of the simulation language for controlling the mode of the operation of selected ones of said integrators of said analog computer in accordance with the instruction signal from said digital computer.