Tritium Project Status
I proposed my project to the AMP Lab at Virginia Tech and they agreed to help fund it as long as I can complete it before I graduate. I’m really looking forward to working on it since I put this project off for years since I’m still a broke college student.
Next Steps
They asked for a detail breakdown of the project into different stages so they can determine if they want to keep funding it or if it’s plausible. Since it’s been a while since I’ve worked on the project I need to update the project files to KiCad 9 and re-test all of the basic gates before continuing. My current plan for the stages are:
- Update project files to KiCad 9 and re-test all the basic gates with AMP Lab equipment to ensure they function as expected.
- Create and test ternary memory such as the flip-flap-flop gates and test the stability before conitnuing on.
- Finish the 6-trit ISA for the computer. I’ll be cutting it down to just a 6-trit word size and 6-trit address bus size to keep down on costs since I don’t have that much funding available even though the AMP Lab.
- Create the ALU for the computer then test and validate it using AMP Lab equipment
- Create and test the memory module for the ternary computer. Since my address bus is only 6-trit, I can use simple ternary to binary encoders and use a binary SRAM IC to save costs on building out a balanced termary memory bank.
- Create and test the control unit
- Create and test the clock unit
- Assemble and test entire computer