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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2010
Benjamin Vigoda, Winchester, MA (US);
William Bradley, Somerville, MA (US);
Shawn Hershey, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Jeffrey Bernstein, Middleton, MA (US);
Benjamin Vigoda, Winchester, MA (US);
William Bradley, Somerville, MA (US);
Shawn Hershey, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Jeffrey Bernstein, Middleton, MA (US);
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Abstract
Some general aspects relate to systems and methods of analog computation using numerical representation with uncertainty. For example, a specification of a group of variables is accepted, with each variable having a set of at least N possible values. The group of variables satisfies a set of one or more constraints, and each variable is specified as a decomposition into a group of constituents, with each constituent having a set of M (e.g., M<N) possible constituent values that can be determined based on the variable values. The method also includes forming a specification for configuring a computing device that implements a network representation of the constraints based on the specification of the group of variables. The network representation includes a first set of nodes corresponding to the groups of constituents, a second set of nodes corresponding to the set of constraints, and interconnections between the first and the second sets of nodes for passing continuous-valued data.