Ternarylogic LLC

Advanced computing? No matter how complex a program or application, how large the memory or how fast the internal clock of a processor or digital circuit, in essence we are still dealing with a computer being a relatively simple switching machine. The buidling blocks of these switching machines are the simplest of simple switching devices: binary switches. This is curious, as virtually no process in the real world (including mathematics) is a binary process. Almost every concept we deal with has multiple possible states.

If you are one of those people who have an innate curiosity and wonder how things can be different, you have come to the right place. You probably have heard many times that current digital technology is binary. Why not ternary, you may wonder. Or why not a 256 state logic? What would non-binary logic mean? Find out here and on related web sites.

Ternarylogic LLC is an R&D company that develops Intellectual Property (IP) in non-binary machine logic and switching technology.

Our inventions are related to novel ways of using non-binary switching functions.

Nonbinary Machine Logic: The Video

A free introductory video on the subject of Nonbinary Machine Logic is here.

If you prefer an MP4 format (for Apple for instance) click here.

The Logic of More.  Applications in Non-binary Machine Logic: The Book

An extensive description and explanation of the inventions with simple examples is provided in an eBook that is now available for purchase. The title of this unique book is "The Logic of More.  Applications in Non-binary Machine Logic."  The price is $ 24.75.

Take a look at the Table of Content.

An unlimited copy license is available at significantly reduced cost for qualified schools, institutions and companies. Send a request for information to admin@ternarylogic.com.

The Introductory Presentations

A series of 4 introductory presentations illustrated with relatively simple examples (including Freemat/Matlab programs) is available to be bought, presently for a very low price of 99 cent.

Simple Matlab®/Freemat programs are included to illustrate switching functions.  

Each presentation is captured as an mp4 video presentation in a lecture format illustrated by the slides and showing the Freemat/Matlab® programs being executed in real-time. Each of these mp4 lectures is between 20-30 minutes and is a file of 40Meg or larger. You can elect to download the mp4 files or download only the slides and the programs.

 

Presentations 1-4 in Non-Binary Machine Logic : (1) Introduction; (2) Machine Arithmetic; (3) Scramblers and Descramblers; (4) Memory Latches

The Ternarylogic LLC IP Portfolio

The Ternarylogic portfolio has over 50 inventions and covers:
- building blocks, such as switches and memories;
- self-synchronizing LFSR based descramblers in Galois and Fibonacci configuration;
- n-state symbol sequence generators;
- sequence detectors;
- correlation methods;
- error-correcting coding (BCH, convolutional and product codes);
- encryption, including Feistel network based codes and ECC coding;
- radix-n arithmetical methods; and
- Galois Field arithmetic.

Access to Our Portfolio and Licensing Opportunities

This web site comprises a wealth of information, links, white papers and references to patents and patent applications. Feel free to download any of the documents.  Please be aware that none of the patented inventions disclosed are in the public domain. No license is provided to use any part of our Intellectual Property.  But you can certainly review it. Or invent something new, if you are inspired by it.

A list of Issued Patents and Published Patent Applications is provided in a document that can be downloaded for www.ternarylogic.com/portfolio.pdf. This document has live links to at least some of the disclosures. Please, visit the US Patent Office web site here for an up-to-date listing of all issued patents.

Contact us if you wish to apply any of our inventions or obtain a license. While we encourage you to review all the disclosed matter, we frown upon any infringement of our IP rights. What does this mean? It means that you cannot use, make, sell, offer to sell, or import any of our inventions that are protected by US Patents in the USA without our express and written permission. Please review the Infringement Statute to update your knowledge about patent infringement in the USA.

Immediate Applications

Non-binary concepts are currently used in error-correcting decoding such as in Reed Solomon (RS) codes. The n-state logic functions are generally implemented as additions and multiplications over Finite or Galois Fields (GF(n)).

By using a non-binary switching approach to RS-coders (rather than an implementation of the more complicated polynomial arithmetical approach) one can simplify the understanding of the RS-coder as well as some error correcting strategies.

In a similar way one can address convolutional coders, including non-binary ones.

The eBook explains the above approaches.