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Question is : are they really less practical or have we just put a lot of effort into binary and with the same effort ternary would be better?
by Ididntdothis 7y ago
Question is : are they really less practical or have we just put a lot of effort into binary and with the same effort ternary would be better?
- nradov 7y agoI'm not a semiconductor engineer but it's hard to see how ternary logic could work reliably with modern low voltage 7nm process chips.
- crimsonalucard 7y agoThere's no clear benefit either.
- jdsully 7y agoThe beauty of digital is you are avoiding the “linear” portion of transistors and are always running them saturated. A ternary machine would require running the transistors in the linear region - which ultra small transistors are terrible at. There are alternative designs using +/0/- saturated signaling but those have higher voltages and larger transistor counts. I’ve played around with linear designs which can indeed use fewer parts but you need high quality transistors and they’d still be slow. https://hackaday.io/project/3628-trinity/log/11995-2-transistor-carry-function https://hackaday.io/project/3628-trinity/log/11995-2-transis...