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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 1985
Filed:
Jan. 26, 1982
Jan Grinberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Robert D Etchells, Topanga, CA (US);
Graham R Nudd, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Siegfried Hansen, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
The Array Processor of the present invention is comprised of a plurality of modular Elemental Processors, the modules being of a number of different functional types. These modules are associated so that the Elemental Processors are architecturally parallel to one another. The principal flow of data within the Array Processor, based on the simultaneous transfer of data words within the Elemental Processors, is thereby correspondingly parallel. The modules are also architecturally associated as functional planes that lie transverse to the Elemental Processors. Each functional plane is thereby comprised of an array of modules that are each otherwise associated with a separate Elemental Processor. Further, the modules of a given functional plane are of a single functional type. This allows the data of a two-dimensionally structured data set, present within the Array Processor, to be processed identically and in parallel by a common logical operation as provided and performed by a functional plane. The Array Processor is operatively connected to a Control Processor by an Array/Control Processor Interface. This interface allows the Control Processor to direct the operation of, and exchange data with, the Array Processor.