Occasions arise in engineering for conducting probabilistic analyses concerned
with the "state" character of systems which range in scale from the circuit level (and even
below) through the black box level and on up through the system level.
These stochastic systems are systems with random as well as deterministic features....
This paper describes the system design of a Fortran hardware
compiler which converts the original code of a source program into
an intermediate code. This code contains features that allow easy
machine code generation. An evaluation is first made on the marketability
of such a system and then a brief...
It is necessary to evaluate and compare the characteristics of
various methods of accessing data-files in order to utilize economically
both the hardware and the software (Space and Time) supported
by the digital on-line system. The purpose of this paper is to
describe and evaluate the structure and use of...
The worst case analysis of rounding error of eleven numerical
quadrature formulas on a computer with floating-point arithmetic,
base b, and t digit mantissa is calculated. These results are
applied to five different integrands using the digital computer CDC
3300 located at Oregon State University. Central processing unit
computing time,...
Direct digital control is becoming quite common in the control
of industrial processes. However, due to the relatively high accuracy
of both analog and conventional digital systems for controlling the
speed of a dc motor, there has been a reluctance to try DDC for
this purpose. This thesis describes a...
The concept of combining arithmetic and memory capability on
a single semiconductor chip has become practical from a system's
viewpoint through the decreased cost of semiconductor memories and
high circuit densities achieved through large scale integration. This
paper describes a model for studying the feasibility of such systems.
An arithmetic-memory...
Due to the present trend to utilize both virtual memory and
paging for the implementation of storage for large-scale computer
systems, it is of interest to analyze the pertinent parameters
associated with the operation of a paging system. This paper
describes the paging process and determines the effect of variations...
The quest for greater computer-system speed has brought
about a continuing increase in the parallelism of these systems. In
particular, the number of processors and other devices which are
required to access the same core-memory not for economy, but
for the advantages to be derived from using the memory as...
A high speed adaptive signal processing concept and several high
speed adaptive logic circuit elements are presented.
The adaptive signal processing system operates in a "goal" oriented
mode; the system tries to optimize its characteristics to
achieve a given goal in spite of unforeseen variations in the inputs,
the system,...
The High Temperature Lattice Test Reactor (HTLTR) at Richland,
Washington, operates at temperatures up to 1000°C. Its low nuclear
power requires a 384 kilowatt electrical heating system, that is
divided into four circuits, to attain the high temperatures in the
ten-foot cube of moderating graphite. This thesis describes the
design...