To me it's another avenue of Multiple Valued Logic to explore. Quaternary has the advantage over Ternary in that it's easier to convert to Binary and back. Whatever Base or Radix you choose, you are going to have to interface with Binary because it is well established.
Interesting but I wish I knew why one would want a quaternary adder. I have found that using a quaternary adder reduces the power consumption and delay when compared to a binary adder but Im not sure where this saving would make much difference
Would a Quaternary architecture run faster than the Binary one? It depends on how you intend to build the gates. The designs I have provided rely on binary logic gates so the propagation delay is longer than the binary gates it is made out of. If you are dealing with serial information then Quaternary hold twice the information of Binary so doesn't need to be as fast, (half the digit rate).
Anywhere you need to add two numbers together. CPU's often have to add numbers together when running a computer program. This is part of what used to be called the Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU) of a processor.
Anything that can be done in Binary can be done in a higher Base or Radix also. I can't think of any applications specific to Quaternary. Counters and Dividers and Linear Feedback Shift Registers are specific to a particular Radix and perhaps there is an application there.
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Not many people (very few indeed) involved themselves with quaternary. I'm glad to you did.
To me it's another avenue of Multiple Valued Logic to explore. Quaternary has the advantage over Ternary in that it's easier to convert to Binary and back. Whatever Base or Radix you choose, you are going to have to interface with Binary because it is well established.
@@MultipleValuedLogic Binary dominates, but Ternary and Quaternary are its pals in logic. Interesting channel you have.
Thanks. It's all good fun.
brilliant
I thought of the possibility of quaternary when I thought of using binary and ternary together and that would result in a kind of quaternary.
Interesting but I wish I knew why one would want a quaternary adder. I have found that using a quaternary adder reduces the power consumption and delay when compared to a binary adder but Im not sure where this saving would make much difference
I think as we reach the limit of what can be done in Binary, logic systems in other bases are going to be considered to give more computing power.
Would a Quaternary architecture run faster than the Binary one?
Would a Quaternary architecture run faster than the Binary one?
It depends on how you intend to build the gates. The designs I have provided rely on binary logic gates so the propagation delay is longer than the binary gates it is made out of. If you are dealing with serial information then Quaternary hold twice the information of Binary so doesn't need to be as fast, (half the digit rate).
This is cool but... What is the application for this?
Anywhere you need to add two numbers together. CPU's often have to add numbers together when running a computer program. This is part of what used to be called the Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU) of a processor.
@@MultipleValuedLogic well yes but every ALU works with binary, I meant "what's the application for quaternary logic circuits?"
Anything that can be done in Binary can be done in a higher Base or Radix also. I can't think of any applications specific to Quaternary. Counters and Dividers and Linear Feedback Shift Registers are specific to a particular Radix and perhaps there is an application there.
What the 404 is this good for
Adding two numbers together in Quaternary!