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Perspectives of Using Oscillators for Computing and Signal Processing
- th0ma5 8y agoReminds me of the gelatin analog computer http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/01/10/defend-your-network-with-a-bucket-of-jell-o/ http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/01/10/defend-your-network-with...
- agumonkey 8y agoFascinating
- 52-6F-62 8y agoSo if I'm to understand this correctly, the proposition would involve designing new chips based not on transistors but an oscillating component made out of something like [probably uneducated example] quartz crystal? Or just to also include something like the latter? For the purpose of manipulating data flow? Or is this all a network of transformers inducing the flow on each other? edit: This helps, I guess there's no sound, practical solution yet. Clearly, LC oscillators have serious practical limitations: inductors remain a major challenge in any planar and miniaturized technology." I'm at work and I've only read into the second page so far, but it's interesting. I didn't know Van Neumann had an oscillatory computer design. Very interesting!
- bra-ket 8y agoamazing, I was just thinking about neural-like computation using phase-locking oscillators and here it is, in a patent from 1957 filed by none other than Von Neumann: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2815488 https://patents.google.com/patent/US2815488 thanks a lot for the link!