MOVE Architecture in Digital Controllers

The conditional MOVE processor (CMOVE) has been proposed for replacement of logic table driven sequencers like traffic light controllers and microcomputer I/O processors, in order to take better advantage of hardware-software tradeoffs. Herein the architecture of the CMOVE processor is sketched, and its application to traditional numerical control problems is studied. Two basis types of controllers, of potential use in industrial process control, are taken into account: the digital filter type, expressed as a ratio of two 2-transform polynomials (the proportional-integral-differential (PID) controllers is a particular case of the above), and the matrix multiplication type, which produces a control vector in response to a state vector input. A detailed program for a CMOVE realizatiorn of the digital filter is presented. A number of alternative realizations of the matrix controller are discussed in detail and evatuated.