“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 impl

“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”