Designing the 3-LAP (three layers associative processor) for arithmetic and symbolic applications

A variant of the MULTAP architecture, called 3-LAP, is presented. This three-layer machine is designed from the middle out, beginning with its finite-state-machine diagram and working toward its low-level processing element cell specification and its high-level algorithm applications definition. The 3-LAP's operating and control parts are defined, the estimated machine throughput performance is presented (over 100 GCOPS (giga complex operations per second)), the processing element cell is defined, and arithmetic and symbolic application primitives in 3-LAP instructions are described.<
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