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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2001
Paolo Arena, Gravina di Catania, IT;
Luigi Occhipinti, Ragusa, IT;
Marco Branciforte, Catania, IT;
Giovanni Di Bernardo, Mascalucia, IT;
STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Abstract
An integrated cellular network structure that is programmable to solve partial derivative differential equations in order to control a phenomenon of diffusion or a propagation of electric drive pulses for robot actuators. Such structure includes analog and digital portions interconnected with each other; the analog portion having a matrix array of analog cells arranged to receive data from an I/O interface, and the digital portion having first and second memory arrays for storing a desired configuration and the initial state of such analog matrix array, respectively.