Abstract:
In a storage array wherein several locations are simultaneously accessed, each location includes a circuit settable to one of two conditions by signals on lines defining its position. Defining the storage position by three lines, ''''horizontal,'''' ''''vertical'''' and ''''diagonal,'''' each circuit may be selected by activating its diagonal line and either the horizontal or vertical line for that circuit. The storage cell is a solid-stage flip-flop with two cross-coupled active devices and additional active device for each of the three driving lines. Connections to each circuit through selected ones of the vertical and horizontal lines communicate information on the inactivated line.
Abstract:
In a data-processing system, a central processing unit and a group of input/output units simultaneously read information from, and write information into, several locations of a single storage unit. The storage is provided with two storage address registers and two data registers. Each storage address register specifies a location in storage with which information in the associated data register is communicated. The storage is an array of storage elements each of which is selected by driving two out of three wires associated with that storage element. Characterizing the three wires as X, Y and Z, each location is accessed by driving the Z-wire for that location and one of the X- or Y-wires. A magnetic core, capable of assuming one of two states in accordance with half select information on two of three wires threaded through it, is disclosed as an example of a storage element. Sense amplifiers, connected to the X- and Y-wires, receive stored information from the undriven wire.