Many claimed to build a ternary computer, however nobody (to the best of my knowledge) completed the project. Triador project makes no empty promises! I am building a very simple but functional 3-trit balanced ternary computer. The only building block allowed is a ternary multiplexer based on DG403 analog switches. You can find more details on the build at the homebrew ternary computer hackaday project. Also check this youtube mini-series about the hardware: This repository contains a program emulator that eases the debugging of the hardware. Triador has a 3-trit architecture, this means that its registers can store numbers from -13 to +13. It has four main registers R1-R4 and nine extra registers R5-R13. Note that R13 is a special register used to choose current program memory segment (more on this below). So, in total, Triador can store 13 numbers from the [-13..+13] range. In addition to that, it has a 1-trit borrow/carry flag and a 6-trit program counter register. The rea...
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