Neuristor Circuits to Accomplish Some Digital Computer Operations

Digital computer circuits were constructed using neuristors. A neuristor is a one-dimensional channel along which pulses may propagate, the pulses taking the form of propagating discharges having the following properties: threshold stimulability, attenuation less propagation, uniform velocity of propagation, and refractive period following the passage of a discharge past any point of a channel. Two neuristor pulse sequences representing binary numbers are fed simultaneously into a neuristor add circuit; a pulse sequence emerges which represents the sum of the two pulse sequences. Similar circuits are developed for subtraction, multiplication, division and other elementary operations.