Accumulator Shifting Unit 1 Accumulator Shifting Unit 2 Accumulator Main Adder Computer Control I Computer Control X Computer Control II Computer Control III Computer Control IV Computer Control V Computer Control VI Computer Control VII Computer Control VIII Computer Control IX Coincidence Unit Clock Generator Complementer/Collater Control Switches and Logic Counter Digit Pulse Generators Engineers Control Panel Frigs Half Adder Type 1 Half Adder Type 2 Main Control Unit Multiplicand Tank Memory Units Multiplier Tank Order Coder Order Decoder 1 Order Decoder 2 Order Flashing Unit Order Tank Printer Sequence Control Tank Initial Orders Loader Timing Control Tank Tank Address Decoder 0 Tank Address Decoder 1 Tank Address Distribution Tank Address Flashing Units Tank Address Decoding Final Stage Tape Reader Test Frigs Transfer Unit | ||
Tank Address Decoding Final Stage
This drawing shows the final level of decoding, which is duplicated on each of the memory racks, one panel handling the upper tanks and the other handling the lower tanks. At the left side of the drawing we see four 3-input AND gates which take two of the final tank address bits (or their inverses) along with the TUpOut signal to produce the signals which open the output gate on the selected Memory Unit when memory is being read. At the right side, a similar group takes the same selection bits and gates them with TUpIn to provide the signals to open the input gates, and also, via the inverters in the Distribution Units, close off the recirculation path. Note that the drawing shows only the Upper Final level decoder, the lower one uses TDownIn and TDownOut. Please ignore the four signals marked T4In-,T5In-,T6In-, and T7In-. They are just there to keep the simulation happy! |