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Message #06931
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Wouter Brok w.j.m.brok@stud.tue.nl
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 07:53:02 +0100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Nv's from transistors
Hello,
Somehow I don't quite agree with you, but it depends on your goals: those
inverters have rather nice specs so it is relatively easy to imagine how
the circuit works and so it is relatively easy to make a bot with them.
Nv's made out of transistors however are more complex in their behaviour
and an Nv-net constructed out of them thus might have a really interesting
behaviour that differs, perhaps not only in subtleties, from the normal
74xx14 or 74xx240 circuits. It is a choice, which you shouldn't make
because of the space involved I think.
Regards,
Wouter Brok.
PS: Wilf (who else) posted some circuits to the list a while ago. I still
have them in my personal archives, so if you can't find them, tell me.
>Yes u can do it but it is not worth the space it takes to make the circuit.
>it takes up the same space to make 1 inverter in PCB form as it would take to
>make 1 bicore so it is definatly not worth it.
>
>
>Jim Taylor wrote:
>
>> I remember asking this question last year but I don't think I ever got a
>> response. I was wondering if it were possible to make nv from a microcore,
>> or bicore from some sort transistor complex? It was mentioned in Living
>> machines.
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