Analog and Hybrid Computer Programming
eBook - ePub

Analog and Hybrid Computer Programming

  1. 314 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Analog and Hybrid Computer Programming

About this book

As classic digital computers are about to reach their physical and architectural boundaries, interest in unconventional approaches to computing, such as quantum and analog computers, is rapidly increasing. For a wide variety of practical applications, analog computers can outperform classic digital computers in terms of both raw computational speed and energy efficiency. This makes them ideally suited a co-processors to digital computers, thus forming hybrid computers.

This second edition of "Analog and Hybrid Computer Programming" provides a thorough introduction to the programming of analog and hybrid computers. It contains a wealth of practical examples, ranging from simple problems such as radioactive decay, harmonic oscillators, and chemical reaction kinetics to advanced topics which include the simulation of neurons, chaotic systems such as a double-pendulum simulation and many more. In addition to these examples, it contains a chapter on special functions which can be used as "subroutines" in an analog computer setup.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments and disclaimer
  5. Preface to the 2nd edition
  6. Acronyms
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Computing elements
  9. 3 Analog computer operation
  10. 4 Basic programming
  11. 5 Special functions
  12. 6 Examples
  13. 7 Hybrid computing
  14. 8 Summary and outlook
  15. A The Laplace transform
  16. B Solving the heat equation with a passive network
  17. C A simple hybrid controller for THE ANALOG THING
  18. D An oscilloscope multiplexer
  19. E A log() function generator
  20. F A sine/cosine generator
  21. G A simple joystick interface
  22. H The Analog Paradigm bus system
  23. I HyCon commands
  24. Index