Hackaday

Ternary RISC Processor Achieves Non-Binary Computing Via FPGA

You would be very hard pressed to find any sort of CPU or microcontroller in a commercial product that uses anything but binary to do its work. And yet, other options exist! Ternary computing ...

It's not a binary choice. Independent boffin builds a ternary CPU on an FPGA

The 5500FP is a ternary CPU implemented on an FPGA. It's not very fast, but it makes it easier to experiment with computers that don't use binary. Independent researcher Claudio Lorenzo La Rosa ...
Scientific American

This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can’t Use It

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...
ExtremeTech

Samsung-Backed Researchers Debut Ternary Semiconductor Design

One of the first things we learn about computers is that they perform operations using binary code to represent values. It's a fundamental trait of computing -- but it's not a requirement. It's ...
Hackaday

Relays Run This Balanced Ternary Adder

If you’re at all familiar with digital computing, you’ll know that computers represent everything in binary values of one and ...
Business Wire

Renesas Technology Introduces Industry’s Highest Level Performance Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) Family Designed for Multi-Layer Packet Processing in Networking ...

CAM, with a function for handling these three values, is called TCAM. (Ternary, meaning “composed of three items,” refers to things or systems consisting of three elements, such as the ternary numeral ...
Nature

Ternary Optical Computing Systems

Ternary optical computing systems represent an innovative leap beyond traditional binary computation by utilising three discrete logic states. This approach leverages the intrinsic advantages of ...