Signal switching with magnetic elements

The complex properties of square-loop magnetic devices allow them to be used in a surprising number of different applications. Multipath magnetic elements, in particular, can be used to achieve nondestructive memory-read systems, as well as all magnetic logic systems in which networks of such elements are interconnected with only ordinary electric wire.¹ In this paper, another capability of magnetic elements is presented which further increases the spectrum of magnetic circuit possibilities; this is the use of magnetic elements for switching analog signals.