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Good question. After thinking about it for 30 seconds, I would say add a negative power rail go from there. All gates are analog circuits at the lowest level,
by anonymousiam 6y ago
Good question. After thinking about it for 30 seconds, I would say add a negative power rail go from there. All gates are analog circuits at the lowest level, so it would not be very difficult to come up a circuit design.
I think the main obstacle would be the lack of ternary logic designers. VHDL/Verilog could probably be extended/enhanced to support ternary logic, but there would be a learning curve for the designers.
- theamk 6y agoI don't think that the problem is with the lack of designers. There are companies making specialized chips all the time, so if there were a way to create an efficient ternary circuits, then someone would have made one. For example, AI/neural networks do not care about base (they just need math), and they only need a few types of cells to be useful. But I have not heard of any applications of ternary there. Intuitively, I assume we'd still want to drive transistors to saturation, so we are not dependent on process parameters. Which means that each transistor still only handles two states, and we need two transistors for each trit. But if we have two transistors, we might as well use them for 2 bits and get even more state out of them.
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