CIRCUIT COMPONENTS

output

A gateway component that returns data to the circuit’s function interface, optionally decoding it through a plugin.

Details and properties

• Circuits may have multiple output nodes, each representing one block of data.
• Supports decoder plugins, mapping sets to external data representations.
• Transparently handles multisets and inhibitory signals.
• Receives data from the upstream component without delay.

Use standard style options to customize the component’s appearance in circuit schematics.

Basic input and output

This is the simplest possible circuit, routing signals directly from the input node to the output node. Multiset or inhibitory inputs are reduced to sets along the pathway.

{ "hyperparameters": {"default": [1000, 10]},
  "dataflow": [
    {"component": "input", "send": [1]},
    {"component": "output", "receive": [1]}
  ]}

Multiple outputs

Each output node represents a disjoint partition (or block) of the overall output signal.

The following circuit broadcasts the input signal to two outputs:

{ "hyperparameters": {"default": [1000, 10]},
  "dataflow": [
    {"component": "input", "send": [1]},
    {"component": "output", "receive": [1]},
    {"component": "output", "receive": [1]}
  ]}

Multisets

This circuit outputs a multiset:

{ "hyperparameters": {"default": [1000, 10]},
  "dataflow": [
    {"component": "input", "send": [1]},
    {"component": "output", 
        "receive": [{"slot": 1, "tags": ["multiset"]}]}
  ]}

Decoding output data

The output component supports decoder plugins that convert sets or multisets to external data representations.

The following circuit uses the codec plugin which encodes symbolic tokens as random Sparse Holographic Representations (SHRs). Here, the output component uses the same plugin instance to decode the SHRs, exactly reversing the mapping.

{ "hyperparameters": {"default": [1000, 10]},
  "dataflow": [
    {"component": "input", "plugin": "codec", "send": [1]},
    {"component": "output", "plugin": "codec", "receive": [1]}
  ]}