The impact of new technology on the analog hybrid art-I

Abstract

Present day hybrid systems are characterized by increasingly sophisticated software requirements. The first attempts at creation of useful analog-digital computer systems were faced with a multitude of hardware problems associated with communication between discrete and sequential machines on the one hand and continuous and parallel machines on the other. Now, however, since the hardware marriage has been successfully consumated, a multitude of software problems remain. This panel will concentrate on the most important of these problems. Position papers by each of the four panelists are presented below.