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    EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the earliest electronic computers. It was built by Moore School of Electrical Engineering...
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  • The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) ran its first program on May 6, 1949. The Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC)...
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    computers. The report contained a detailed proposal for the design of the machine that has since become known as the E.D.V.A.C. (electronic discrete variable...
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    An electronic component is any basic discrete electronic device or physical entity part of an electronic system used to affect electrons or their associated...
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  • response EDSAC—Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator EDVAC—Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer EEPROM—Electronically Erasable Programmable...
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    digital computers represent varying quantities symbolically and by discrete values of both time and amplitude (digital signals). Analog computers can have...
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    August 1944, the construction of a machine called the Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC) and design work for it commenced at the University...
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    A transistor computer, now often called a second-generation computer, is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes. The first...
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  • In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model that generally defines how software controls the CPU in a computer or...
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  • PID controller automatically compares the desired target value (setpoint or SP) with the actual value of the system (process variable or PV). The difference...
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    Commissioner of Labor in Charge. Early Computers, IPSJ Computer Museum, Information Processing Society of Japan "Automatic Abacus】 Mechanical Calculating Machine"...
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  • machines and von Neumann's plans for the binary computer, EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer). On his return, he recruited Alan Turing to...
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    Automation (redirect from Automatic control)
    on-off control to multi-variable high-level algorithms in terms of control complexity. In the simplest type of an automatic control loop, a controller...
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  • continuous variable in a domain such as time, space, or frequency. discrete event simulation (DES) A model of the operation of a system as a discrete sequence...
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  • of electronic processors, high-speed electronic signalling networks and electronic graphic displays it became possible to replace these discrete controllers...
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    For example, variables are not declared before being used. Also, variables are automatically initialized to zero. Here is an example computer program, in...
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    A computer monitor is an output device that displays information in pictorial or textual form. A discrete monitor comprises a visual display, support...
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  • field of computer music can trace its roots back to the origins of electronic music, and the first experiments and innovations with electronic instruments...
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    flashing. Analog signal to discrete time interval converter Class-D amplifier Computer fan control Continuously variable slope delta modulation Delta-sigma...
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    called a computer operating properly timer (COP timer), is an electronic or software timer that is used to detect and recover from computer malfunctions...
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    Development of computer control tools posed a requirement of discrete control system engineering because the communications between the computer-based digital...
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    processor integrated circuit (IC) is made by NEC (marked μPD978C). Discrete electronic components like capacitors and resistors and the IC are mounted on...
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  • A discrete cosine transform (DCT) expresses a finite sequence of data points in terms of a sum of cosine functions oscillating at different frequencies...
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    IBM 1401 (category Variable word length computers)
    The IBM 1401 is a variable-wordlength decimal computer that was announced by IBM on October 5, 1959. The first member of the highly successful IBM 1400...
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    An embedded system is a specialized computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has...
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    IBM 1620 (category Variable word length computers)
    typical computer main memory in 2006). The Model II was introduced in 1962. The IBM 1620 Model I was a variable "word" length decimal (BCD) computer using...
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  • found in many electronic devices, such as radio receivers, television sets, radio and television broadcast transmitters, computers, computer peripherals...
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    series are sometimes used to provide variable or constant voltage to fans. When thermally bonded to the computer's chassis, one of these ICs can provide...
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    A voltage regulator is a system designed to automatically maintain a constant voltage. It may use a simple feed-forward design or may include negative...
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    electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse. Finished in 1941, it was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. Its operation...
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