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Not a binary choice. Independent boffin builds a ternary CPU on an FPGA
- rbanffy 8mo agoThat’s interesting. If you join 8 trits do you get a trite?
- defrost 8mo agoPaper: 5500FP: A 24-Trit Balanced Ternary RISC Processor - https://zenodo.org/records/18881738 https://zenodo.org/records/18881738 See also: Setun (1958) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
- Someone 8mo ago“Emulate a ternary CPU”, I would say. You can’t (AFAIK) buy ternary FPGAs, so the underlying hardware still is binary. From the paper: “On the current FPGA implementation, each trit is encoded as 2 binary bits”
- tim-tday 8mo agoWtf is a boffin
- kristianp 8mo agoIt's a word that tells you that you're reading the register.