A MULTIPROCESSOR WORKING AS A FAULT-TOLERANT CELLULAR AUTOMATON

A memory-coupled multiprocessor-well suited to bit-wise operation-can be utilized to operate as a 1024 items cellular processing unit. Each processor is working on 32 bits and 32 such processors are combined to a multiprocessor. The information is stored in "vertical" direction, as it is defined and described in earlier papers [1] on "vertical processing". The two-dimensional array (32 times 32 bits) is composed of the 32 bit-machine-words of the coupled processors on the one hand and of 32 processors in nearest-neighbour-topology on the other hand. The bit-wise cellular operation at one of the 1024 "points" is realized by the program of the processor-possibly assisted by appropriate microprogram sequences.