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Re: A better full adder!
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:16:37 GMT
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Kevin L. Clague wrote:
AND takes 1 piston + 1 switch using your design.

XOR takes 1 piston + 2 switches using my design.

Ah... it took me a while to figure out what you were doing, but I see
now... (reviewing your pics)

If your inputs to the XOR were A and B, you use A to drive the piston,
and require the presence of both B and NOT B to make the piston move.  I
see what you were doing now.

Yeah... after my first round of pneumatic trials failed abysmally, I
tossed the idea of using or requiring inverted logic.

> Two half adders (2 + 6), plus one OR gate (1 + 2) totals 3 + 8.

So you can build a full adder with only 8 switches??? WOW.

>> Mark



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  Re: A better full adder!
 
(...) Yes. B and NOT B into the mux formed by two switches that are arranged to never release. (...) But with LEGO pneumatics you can typically get it for free. (...) Yes. When I wrote my post up yesterday I'd forgotten that I needed NOT B as an (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: A better full adder!
 
(...) AND takes 1 piston + 1 switch using your design. XOR takes 1 piston + 2 switches using my design. OR takes 1 piston + 2 switches using my design. But AND and XOR can be done using the same piston, so 1 piston + 3 switches gets you a half (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)

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