Large-scale integration of digital adaptive elements

Techniques of large-scale integration are now being applied to "adaptive" type computing elements because the nature of the partitioning of the adaptive computing function yields building blocks that can be both economically realized and applicable to a wide variety of other uses. The adaptive element devices are actually members of a hardware line of digital filter building blocks consisting of four members: digital filter shift register chip; digital-pulse converter output chip; serial/parallel multiplier; adaptive-element shift register chip. This paper discusses the last two of these devices.