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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2009
Applicant:
Rick C. Stevens, Apple Valley, MN (US);
Inventor:
Rick C. Stevens, Apple Valley, MN (US);
Assignee:
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/50 (2006.01); G06F 7/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An analog optical adder system that achieves high precision results. The system uses an analog optical carry function to provide a result having a precision higher than the precision of the individual elements of the system. The optical carry function is created by optical carry determinators that are configured to add an optical carry, if any, to an optical signal associated with a next adjacent byte of the digital signals being added. The use of optical carry enables greater overall addition precision.