The AN/UYK-8 was a UNIVAC computer.
Development
In April 1967, UNIVAC received a contract from the U.S. Navy for design, development, testing and delivery of the AN/UYK-8 microelectronics computer for use with the AN/TYA-20.[1]
The AN/UYK-8 was built to replace the CP-808 (Marine Corps air cooled AN/USQ-20 variant) in the Beach Relay Link-11 communication system,[2] the AN/TYQ-3 in a AN/TYA-20[3]
Technical
It used the same 30-bit words and instruction set as the AN/USQ-17 and AN/USQ-20 Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) computers, built with "first generation integrated circuits". This made it about one quarter of the volume of the AN/USQ-20.[2] It had two processors instead of just one.[2]
Instructions were represented as 30-bit words, in the following format:
f 6 bits function code j 3 bits jump condition designator k 3 bits partial word designator b 3 bits which seven index register to use (B0=non used) s 2 bits which S (5bits) register to use S0,S1,S2,S3(P(17-13)) y 13 bits operand address in memory memory address = Bb + Ss + y = 18 bit (262,144 words)
Numbers were represented as full 30-bit words. This also allowed for five 6-bit alphanumeric characters per word.
The main memory was increased to 262,144 words (256K words) of magnetic core memory.
The available processor registers were:
- one 30-bit arithmetic (A) register.
- a contiguous 30-bit Q register (total of 60 bits for the result of multiplication or the dividend in division).
- seven 30-bit index (B) registers.