Circuits for multiple valued logic—a tutorial and appreciation

  • Authors:
  • Kenneth C. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • MVL '76 Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on Multiple-valued logic
  • Year:
  • 1976

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Abstract

It has been stated often in the past that practical acceptance of multi-valued logic awaits the development of suitable electronic means for fabricating a sufficiently powerful and general purpose logic. Though the search for such means has proceeded in parallel with every other development in the multivalued field in the last thirty years, there is reason to believe that the pace is quickening and that success, by some measure, is sensibly upon us. In support of this contention I offer in a general sense the all-pervasive presence of the integrated circuit industry in which formerly inconceivable complexity is a current low cost reality. It is important for the multi-valued discipline that each of the practitioners of its various facets are truly aware of, and interact with, the developments of the others. With this in mind we will begin an overview of electronic circuitry whose goal it is to enhance the appreciation of non-specialists in the rapid technological development which surrounds them. We begin by reviewing some very basic properties of electronic devices, introduce a convention for drawing circuits which is a considerable aid in communicating and understanding, proceed to describe and interrelate global properties of available active (transistor) devices, then finally practice these basics on circuits typical of those you will see increasingly in the literature.