| 摘要 |
<p>The present invention relates to apparatus for determining the sum of first and second optical binary words. The apparatus uses a first optical logic gate (35) and a second optical logic gate (17) to generate respective first and second combination words which represent a logical combination of the binary words applied to the respective logic gates (17, 35). The first and second combination words are then offset by one bit slot with respect to each other by an offsetting means (22, 32) to generate first and second offset combination words. These offset combination words are repeatedly fed back to the first and second logic gates. The binary sum of the original two words is given by the first combination word when each bit slot of the second combination word has the same logical state.</p> |
