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TRIADOR: The only ternary computer made for real in the past 50 years.

dmitry-v-sokolovDmitry V. Sokolov 12/15/2017 at 09:482 Comments

As I said, the only building block allowed is a ternary multiplexer based on DG403 analog switches. With two DG403 it is possible to build a circuit bearing two ternary multiplexers:

Here is the layout:

The total budget for this project is set to 300 trimuxes or 600 ternary multiplexers. Here are all the components soldered, cleaned and tested:

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SHAOS wrote 06/18/2018 at 06:18 point

Also original TRIMUX is available on Tindie in form of PCB, KIT or pre-assembled:
https://www.tindie.com/products/TRC/dual-balanced-ternary-multiplexerdemultiplexer/
Note: original TRIMUX has wider space between groups of pins than SMD version described above!

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SHAOS wrote 12/16/2017 at 03:36 point

This is a link to original TRIMUX on DG403 :)

http://shaos.net/blog/2010/08/ternary-multiplexer-selector.html

I think original drawing is more clearly explaining what is going on over there:

May be I should redraw it to have TERNARY UNIVERSAL UNARY ELEMENT (or "ternary selector") on both sides to match TRIMUX schematics exactly ;)

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