System design of the SEAC and DYSEAC

Abstract

In the course of developing the system plans for the DYSEAC and the SEAC, certain standard methods and procedures were evolved for producing a large-scale digital computer design. These standard procedures cover, first, the development of system specifications, second, the development of functional plans, and finally the development of wiring plans. The later stages of these procedures are reducible to sequences of simple steps, capable of being systematically formulated in explicit terms. The similarity between these procedures and many of the data-processing procedures commonly being executed by present-day computers suggests that, with further development of these design techniques, the wiring plans for new computer systems might well be produced by existing digital machines.