Magnetic device for performing complex logic functions

Claim 1

+ ... +KI-1 COMPRISING: FIRST AND SECOND LOGICAL DATA REGISTERS, EACH OF SAID DATA REGISTERS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF STAGES, ONE FOR EACH ORDER OF SIGNIFICANCE IN THE BINARY NUMBERS TO BE ADDED, SAID FIRST DATA REGISTER GENERATING R1 BITS OF BINARY INFORMATION WHICH ARE THE INVERSE OF THE RI FACTORS APPEARING IN THE DECODER TERMS OF SAID EQUATIONS AND REPRESENT THE INVERSE EXCLUSIVE-OR OF CORRESPONDING BITS OF INFORMATION APPEARING RESPECTIVELY ON TWO INPUT CHANNELS, SAID SECOND DATE REGISTER GENERATING KI BITS OF BINARY INFORMATION WHICH ARE THE INVERSE OF THE KI FACTORS APPEARING IN THE DECODER TERMS OF SAID EQUATIONS AND REPRESENT THE INVERSE AND FUNCTION OF CORRESPONDING BITS OF INFORMATION APPEARING RESPECTIVELY ON SAID INPUT CHANNELS, FIRST AND SECOND LOGICAL MATRIX REGISTERS, SAID FIRST MATRIX REGISTER GENERATING THE SIMULTANEOUSCARRY TERMS FOR THE ADDITION PROCESS IN ACCORDANCE WITH SAID SET OF EQUATIONS FOR SUCH TERMS, SAID FIRST MATRIX REGISTER COMPRISING, A FIRST PLURALITY OF MAGNETIC ELEMENTS EACH HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY RECTANGULAR HYSTERESIS LOOP CHARACTERISTIC AND BEING CAPABLE OF ASSUMING OPPOSED STATES OF MAGNETIC FLUX REMANENCE, EACH SAID MAGNETIC ELEMENT REPRESENTING A SINGLE DECODER TERM OF SAID EQUATIONS, SAID SECOND MATRIX REGISTER ACCEPTING AND BUFFERING THE INFORMATION STORED IN SAID FIRST DATA REGISTER AND COMPRISING A SECOND PLURALITY OF MAGNETIC ELEMENTS EQUAL IN NUMBER AND CORRESPONDING TO THE STAGES OF SAID FIRST DATA REGISTER, INHIBIT LINES REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INVERSE OF THE INPUT VARIABLES APPEARING AS THE FACTORS OF THE DECODER TERMS OF SAID SIMULTANEOUS-CARRY EQUATIONS, SAID INHIBIT LINES CORRESPONDING TO THE FACTORS OF ANY GIVEN DECODER TERM AND BEING INDUCTIVELY COUPLED TO THE ELEMENT OF SAID FIRST PLURALITY OF MAGNETIC ELEMENTS REPRESENTING SAID GIVEN TERM, THOSE INHIBIT LINES CORRESPONDING ALSO TO THE INVERSE INPUT VARIABLES GENERATED BY SAID FIRST DATA REGISTER BEING INDUCTIVELY COUPLED AS WELL TO RESPECTIVE ONES OF SAID SECOND PLURALITY OF MAGNETIC ELEMENTS, SAID INHIBIT LINES BEING ADAPTED TO BE PULSED FROM A SOURCE OF CURRENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BINARY INFORMATION STORED IN BOTH SAID FIRST AND SECOND DATA REGISTERS, A PLURALITY OF CONTROL LINES COUPLED TO SAID FIRST AND SECOND PLURALITIES OF MAGNETIC ELEMENTS, SAID CONTROL LINES BEING ADAPTED TO BE PULSED SELECTIVELY FROM A SOURCE OF CURRENT WHEREBY SELECTED MAGNETIC ELEMENTS TEND TO BE SWITCHED FROM ONE STATE OF REMANENCE TO THE OPPOSITE STATE OF REMANENCE, A FIRST PLURALITY OF SENSE LINES REPRESENTATIVE RESPECTIVELY OF SAID MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS, EACH SAID SENSE LINE BEING INDUCTIVELY COUPLED IN COMMON TO ALL OF THE MAGNETIC ELEMENTS IN SAID FIRST MATRIX REGISTER WHICH REPRESENT DECODER TERMS IN A GIVEN ONE OF SAID EQUATIONS, A SECOND PLURALITY OF SENSE LINES INDUCTIVELY COUPLED RESPECTIVELY TO SAID SECOND PLURALITY OF MAGNETIC ELEMENTS, THE SWITCHING OF THE MAGNETIC ELEMENTS OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND MATRIX REGISTERS CAUSING OUTPUT VOLTAGES TO BE INDUCED IN THE SENSE LINES COUPLED TO SAID MAGNETIC ELEMENTS, THE OUTPUT VOLTAGES INDUCED RESPECTIVELY ON THE SENSE LINES ASSOCIATED WITH SAID FIRST AND SECOND MATRIX REGISTERS APPEARING AS BITS OF INFORMATION ON SAID TWO INPUT CHANNELS, AND MEANS FOR APPLYING SAID BITS OF CARRY INFORMATION IN COMMON TO BOTH SAID FIRST AND SECOND DATA REGISTERS.

Claim 2

A SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING A FULLY PARALLEL BINARY ADDITION WHEREIN THE SIMULTANEOUS-CARRY INFORMATION IS DERIVED FROM EQUATIONS OF THE GENERAL FORM: