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Re:How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes by winwang on Thursday December 05, 2024 @11:55AM (#42329953)
PAM3 for data transfer: https://www.synopsys.com/designware-ip/technical-bulletin/pa...
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Re:How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes by taeric on Thursday December 05, 2024 @12:12PM (#42330167)
At the physical layer, this makes a ton of sense. Apologies for completely ignoring that part. I was specifically curious on encoding each "digit" of a ternary number independently in a computer. Which.... yeah, that isn't what this article was even saying.
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Re:How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes by pezezin on Thursday December 05, 2024 @08:01PM (#42334826)
It is also worth noting that Gigabit Ethernet uses PAM5.
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