DIGITALRECHNER MIT EINER MULTIPROZESSOR-ANORDNUNG

摘要

In a digital computer with multiprocessor arrangement, each processor is a highly integrated computer chip on a semiconductor basis connected to the other processors in the arrangement, which are of same design, via a highly meshed management system composed of meshes and nodes for transmitting digital signals. Peripheral devices such as keyboards, memories, monitors, image sensors, speech analysis units, speech synthesis units as well as transmitters are connected to the computer. According to the invention, the management system is a beam waveguide network. Each node (26) is associated with a processor (11) to which it is coupled via an optical emitter (21) and an optical receiver (22). The new types of chip interconnection which result and hence the high packing density of the chips and large number of cross-connections obtained are particularly advantageous. The computer network has a high functional density and the computer and peripherals are unaffected by electromagnetic influences.