Embodiments provide for integrated circuit chip and device having such an integrated circuit, in which different types of pads are arranged in separate rows. These components for a Mechanical Computer operate under a unifying BUS methodology using a single moving path-differentiated particle for each signal. First, an initial queue size is determined based on the desired failure probability and a number of voice channels that is lower than the desired number of channels. In decoding a desired level of the encoded data, a checksum is determined again on the basis of the encoded data and compared with the checksum written in the header. The circuit is constructed to include a plurality of serially connected delay elements that are coupled to the clock signal at the input node.