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Trinary however is an interesting middle; people have built trinary hardware long ago; it feels like you could make natively trinary hardware for something like
by trebligdivad 3y ago
Trinary however is an interesting middle; people have built trinary hardware long ago; it feels like you could make natively trinary hardware for something like this; it might even be quite a win.
- thsksbd 3y agoCan you make a "CMOS" three voltage level circuit though? One where the only current flow is when the state changes? Im not in this field but that's a question that's been bugging me for a while. Off you can't do this wouldn't energy consumption balloon?
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- neomantra 3y agoMy friend was working on this in the mid-90s at Texas Instruments. Not sure what the underlying semiconductors were, but it did involve making ternary logic via voltage levels. Just searched a bit and found this TI datasheet which might be an example of it (high logic, low logic, high impedance), but maybe not: https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74act534.pdf https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74act534.pdf
- int_19h 3y agoPeople haven't built reliable ternary electronics, though. Soviets tried with Setun, but they eventually had to resort to emulating each trit with two hardware bits (and wasting one state out of the possible four).