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To start the journey of discovery, we must have all the building blocks and tools ready to use as creativity requires a selective group of useful mechanisms to achieve a modicum of feed back to keep the momentum going forward towards interesting and useful discoveries. The Ternary building block are here, along with a Binary controller that you can use to design your Logic elements as needed. I have shown previous Unary gates and they are still usable in these designs. I decided to put 4 gates in one unit so wiring can be simplified when you create the 2/3/4 input gates. For a 2 input gate you need 3 gates for the columns and a summing gate and 3 gates for the rows a summing gate for the rows and the result. This makes it simpler, you will only need 2 unary boards for an 2 input gate, a base board was designed to make this easier, these can be stacked, as high as required.

Parts List for each Unary Gate V6

U1,U3,U4 _________G3VM-353A
U2,U5 ____________G3VM-61A1
U6,U8,U9 _________G3VM-353A
U7,U10 ___________G3VM-61A1
U11,U13,U14 ______G3VM-353A
U8,U15 ___________G3VM-61A1
U16,U18,U19 ______G3VM-353A
U17,U20 __________G3VM-61A1
LED1,2,3,4 ________3mm Blue
36 x ______________Male/Female headers
20 x ______________4 Pin sockets (if required)
1 x _______________Unary Board V6  

Parts List for Base Boards

4 x _______________24Pin Fmale Header
8 x _______________3 Pin

Parts List for Binary to Ternary Gate Selector Board

6 x _______________CD4555BE
9 x _______________ADG412BNZ
C1,C2,C3,C4,C5,C6 _100 nF Caps
D1-D12 ___________1N4007
D19,D20,D21,D22 __1N4007
1 x _______________LM7805
1 x _______________LM7905
C7,C10,C12,C22 ___47uF Electrolytic Caps
Led1 _____________Led
R1 _______________1K
3 x _______________6 Pin
3 x _______________5 Pin
15 x ______________8 Pin Dip
1 x _______________7 Pin Dip
1 x _______________74LS125

Parts for Ternary Switch Board

U1 – U9 ___________Mini Slide Switches SS-23E04G3
D1 – D9 ___________LED RGB 4 pin RCGB
R1 – R9 ___________Resistors 470 Ohms
P1 _______________Male Header 2.54 1×3 Power input
H1 _______________Male/Fmale Header 2.54 1×9 Data Lines
6 x _______________2mm Screws Board
18 x ______________2mm Screws Switches
1 x _______________PCB Board (Ternary Input Switches)

Parts List for Ternary RGB Display

1 x _______________LAA110LS
1 x _______________LBB110STR
3 x _______________220 Ohm
3 x _______________1xPin hdrs 2.54
1 x _______________4 pin hdr 1.27
1 x _______________RGB PCB board

Parts List for TMS9995 Board

1 x ________U8 ____74LS138
1 x ________U5 ____74LS32
1 x ________U6 ____MAX232CPE
1 x ________U7 ____TMS9902
1 x _____U11+U12__TMS9901 x2
1 x ________U1 ____TMS9995
1 x ________U4 ____74LS04
1 x ________U3 ____62256-07 SRAM
1 x ________U2 ____M27C256 EPROM + Binary Data Cortex + Terminal
1 x _______________DB9 RS232 RA port
1 x _______________Header 6 Pin
C1-C8 ____________100nF
C11,C12___________100nF
C16 -C20 __________1uF Electrolyticn
R1________________10K
R2 – R6____________1K
C13, C14 __________15pF
X1 _______________12 Mhz XTAL
1 x _______________LED21 LED indicator
1 x _______________SW4 Micro switch
C15 ______________10nF
4 x _______________10 pin RA Male Pin Headers
1 x ________U9 ____LM7805
C22, C23 __________47Uf
DC1 ______________9v input Jack
3 x________________40 Pin Dip
2 x _______________ 28 Pin Dip
2 x _______________ 14 Pin Dip
2 x _______________ 16 Pin Dip
1 x _______________ 18 Pin Dip
1 x _______________TMS9995 SBC PCB Board (Conner Stuarts Design)

Boards

Unary Gate Base Board V6
Unary Gate Base Board Singles V6
Binary to Ternary Gate Controller V1
Ternary Input Switches
Ternary Bit Display
TMS9995 SBC

Each Unary board consists of 4 separate Unary Gates they can be used as a set or individually, depending which base board you use.

The Unary Gate Base Board has been configured as a 2 input gate A, B and the result in C.

The Unary Gate Base Board Singles is configured to use as either a 2 input gate by wiring it as
required or as single chains or groups.

J1, J4, J7, J10 are your ternary inputs, while J2, J5, J8, J11 are your outputs to each gate.

K1, K2, K3 are configurable with J40, J39, J38 as a matrix to give you all 27 Unary configurations.
The interconnections are configurable with a small 6 pin cross connected board, or you can use jumper cables if you choose.

Controller Board

This has a 12vac input and 18+3 pin binary input and a 3 pin ternary output. It was designed to connect to a TMS9995 SBC with CRU outputs and have software to control the gate configuration in hardware.

With Five Boards there are 45 binary controls which will give you a Ternary Multiplexer made of five 2 input gates and 3 Unary gates. Once you have tested and configured your logic, then you can use the base board with plugin matrix connectors as your final gate design.

Setting Your Bits

H1, H2 and H3 are your binary control bits to select each gate type. You select 6 bits to as either decimal or Hex to each unary port. I added U28(74LS125) and U29 3 pin header which is used to switch each gate on, under software control as required.

Ternary Input Switches

This board has 9 ternary outputs and can be used to control the A+B inputs on the Unary boards.
There is 9 RGB indicators for the slide switches, Red = +5v , Green = 0v , Blue = -5v.

Ternary Bit Display

This small board gives you a visual indication of your output bits,
Red = +5v , Green = 0v , Blue = -5v

Listed below is the Program to control the Ternary Gate Selector. If you want to attach more Selector boards you will need to expand the CRU outputs. I have left the header J5 to allow CE for more TMS9901 to be added at some point. The next version will also have have mounting board for 4 more chips, giving a total of 96 outputs.

Where 21 are needed for each 2 input gate, this allows control of 4 2 input gates, 84 pins , leaving you 12 spare pins for other controls.

This is a Cortex Basic program to control one two input gate.

8 REM TERNARY GATE CONTROL
9 REM *** BY ARTO HEINO 2023 **
10 REM OUTPUT ON 9901 PORT BIT 0 to bit 20 (21 BITS)
11 REM TO CONTROL TERNARY 18 BIT GATES + 3 BIT CONTROL
12 REM
13 REM SETUP BASE ADDRESS OF 9901 to 64 decimal = >0040 HEX
14 BASE 64
15 DIM TR(27,6)
17 REM DISABLE EACH CD4555BE CHIP
18 CRB(16+18)=0
19 CRB(16+19)=0
20 CRB(16+20)=0
24 REM LOAD 27 TERNARY GATE BIT DATA
25 RESTORE
27 FOR Z=1 TO 27
28 FOR X = 1 TO 6
29 READ TR(Z,X)
30 NEXT X
31 NEXT Z
32 REM SELECT 3 GATES
33 FOR A=1 TO 3
36 PRINT “COLUMN “; A
38 PRINT “SELECT GATE 1 TO 27”
39 INPUT GT
40 IF GT<1 OR GT>27 THEN GOTO 38
42 FOR BT=1 T0 6
45 REM SET HIGH OR LOW
48 CRB(15+BT+(A*6-6)) =TR(GT,BT)
56 NEXT BT
57 NEXT A
60 REM ENABLE EACH CD4555BE CHIP
61 CRB(16+18)=1
62 CRB(16+19)=1
63 CRB(16+20)=1
64 END
65 REM DATA FOR GATES
66 REM H1 + H2 + H3
101 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0
102 DATA 1,0,0,0,0,0
103 DATA 0,1,0,0,0,0
104 DATA 0,0,1,0,0,0
105 DATA 1,0,1,0,0,0
106 DATA 0,1,1,0,0,0
107 DATA 0,0,0,1,0,0
108 DATA 1,0,0,1,0,0
109 DATA 0,1,0,1,0,0
110 DATA 0,0,0,0,1,0
111 DATA 1,0,0,0,1,0
112 DATA 0,1,0,0,1,0
113 DATA 0,0,1,0,1,0
114 DATA 1,0,1,0,1,0
115 DATA 0,1,1,0,1,0
116 DATA 0,0,0,1,1,0
117 DATA 1,0,0,1,1,0
118 DATA 0,1,0,1,1,0
119 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,1
120 DATA 1,0,0,0,0,1
121 DATA 0,1,0,0,0,1
122 DATA 0,0,1,0,0,1
123 DATA 1,0,1,0,0,1
124 DATA 0,1,1,0,0,1
125 DATA 0,0,0,1,0,1
126 DATA 1,0,0,1,0,1
127 DATA 0,1,0,1,0,1

Here is the layout for the SBC and the Ternary Gates.

An alternative design without the SBC and just putting units together.

Here are a few pictures regarding some of the components.

This is the CODE for the 27 selections of Unary gates, H1,H2,H3 CRU outputs.

Here are the PCB’s for the Basic boards.

If you want to see more of this type of content, I would appreciate any donation to help pay for more original designs and parts. I hope you enjoy this work, regards Arto.