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[Dave]

On September 6, 2017 7:36:39 AM PDT, Gordonjcp <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 12:13:28AM -0700, Donald Tillman wrote:
>> Yes, exactly.  
>> 
>> The patent describes a classic DCO function; taking a value
>proportional to the frequency, adding it to an accumulator each cycle,
>and ignoring the overflow.
>> 
>> But a 16-bit add operation is not cheap in 1969 technology.
>> 
>> So instead, the accumulator is a shift register, looped on itself,
>with a 1 bit adder, and the frequency value is scanned in 1 bit at a
>time.
>> 
>> That's insane.  Yet weirdly practical.
>> 
>>   -- Don
>
>That's not a bad idea actually, and you could implement it "fast
>enough"
>in a few gates for modern hardware.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-serial_architecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-bit_architecture

-Dave