Building a simple oscillator based Ising machine for research and education

Oscillator based Ising machines are non-von-Neumann machines ideally suited for solving combinatorial problems otherwise intractable on classic stored-program digital computers due to their run-time complexity. Possible future applications are manifold ranging from quantum simulations to protein folding and are of high academic and commercial interest as well. Described in the following is a very simple such machine aimed at educational and research applications.