EDVAC (redirect from Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer)
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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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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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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List of computing and IT abbreviations (redirect from Computer and IT acronyms)
EDSAC—Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator EDVAC—Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer EEPROM—Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only...
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History of computing hardware (redirect from Computer generation)
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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Von Neumann architecture (redirect from Von Neumann computer)
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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Commissioner of Labor in Charge. Early Computers, IPSJ Computer Museum, Information Processing Society of Japan "Automatic Abacus】 Mechanical Calculating Machine"...
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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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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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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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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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Instruction set architecture (redirect from Variable-length instruction word)
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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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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Industrial control system (redirect from Industrial control computer)
of electronic processors, high-speed electronic signalling networks and electronic graphic displays it became possible to replace these discrete controllers...
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Calculator (redirect from Automatic calculator)
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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ORDVAC (category IAS architecture computers)
The ORDVAC (Ordnance Discrete Variable Automatic Computer), is an early computer built by the University of Illinois for the Ballistic Research Laboratory...
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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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Graphics processing unit (redirect from Discrete graphics processing unit)
specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video...
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Instrumentation (redirect from Electronic instrumentation)
process. With coming of electronic processors and graphic displays it became possible to replace these discrete controllers with computer-based algorithms,...
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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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Stochastic process (redirect from Discrete-time stochastic process)
} is a discrete-time martingale. In this aspect, discrete-time martingales generalize the idea of partial sums of independent random variables. Martingales...
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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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Digital electronics (redirect from Digital electronic circuit)
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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Signal processing (redirect from Computer-assisted signal processing)
quantized in time, but not in magnitude. Analog discrete-time signal processing is a technology based on electronic devices such as sample and hold circuits...
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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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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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List of resistors (section Variable resistors)
of electrical networks and electronic circuits and are ubiquitous in electronic equipment. Practical resistors as discrete components can be composed...
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Resistor (section Variable resistors)
of electrical networks and electronic circuits and are ubiquitous in electronic equipment. Practical resistors as discrete components can be composed...
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Voltage regulator (redirect from Automatic Voltage Regulator)
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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