Control structures in digital processes
By: by V. Michael Powers
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Monterey, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Electronic digital computers; Computer programming; Design and construction
Description: The control space of a digital process can be viewed as a projection of the state space of the processor. This state space may be an interpretation of some underlying (perhaps physical) processor's state space. A control operator is a projection of a process step: the portion which specifies the 'next control state'. A set of elementary control structures is defined and used as a common basis for comparing the control structures in a microcomputer and several programming languages. The relationship of this view of control to several areas of computer science research is noted.
Notes: Title from cover.

"29 August 1973"--Cover.

"NPS-52PW73081A"--Cover.

DTIC Identifiers: Logic design, FORTRAN, MCS-4 computers, SIMPL programming language, microprogramming, Advanced Avionics Digital Computer, FORTRAN 4 programming language, ALGOL, PL/1 programming language.

Author key words: Digital control, control structures, control states, digital process control.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 44)

"Approved for public release; distribution unlimited"--Cover.

Technical report; 1973-74.

ck/ 8/19/09.