Saturable Hall effect ternary logic element

Ternary computer logic offers the advantage over other types of logic in the inherently economical number of components required. The ternary logic element which we shall consider is defined as follows. A 2-input, ternary, combinatorial, switching device is a device having two input channels and one output channel. Each channel can have only one of three distinct, specified signals on it at a given time. The particular signal which appears on the output channel is completely determined by the signals on the input channels at that time. The form of the logic element which we shall consider here turns out to be, with its sister element obtained by a reversal of sign, to form a functionally complete set of ternary logic elements. One of the requirements of any logic element is that it exhibits the closure property, that is, the output takes only the values of the inputs. This requires a non-linear phenomena. The saturable Hall effect exhibits such a non-linear phenomena and we have applied it as a ternary logic element.